Videos – Flawed “Science” – Special Reports
~ Forensics on Trial – YouTube
~ Forensic Sciences and Miscarriages of Justice – Part 1 of (5) – YouTube
~ Forensic Sciences and Miscarriages of Justice – Part 2 of (5) – YouTube
~ Forensic Sciences and Miscarriages of Justice – Part 3 of (5) – YouTube
~ Forensic Sciences and Miscarriages of Justice – Part 4 of (5) – YouTube
~ Forensic Sciences and Miscarriages of Justice – Part 5 of (5) – YouTube
~ Frontline: The Real CSI – YouTube
~ PBS Frontline 2012 The Real CSI – YouTube
~ The System – Flawed Forensics – YouTube
Videos – Flawed “Science” – News Reports
~ Judging The Value of Forensic Evidence – YouTube
~ New report shows flaws in forensic evidence – YouTube
~ The “Phony Science” in Law Enforcement – YouTube
Videos – Flawed “Science” – Comedy News Reports
~ Forensic Evidence Not Actually Backed By Science! – YouTube
~ Forensic Science: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – YouTube
Mainstream News – Flawed “Science“
- ~ A Judge Asks: Is Forensic Science Really Science? – Discover Magazine
- ~ Calls for limits on ‘flawed science’ in court are well-founded: A guest post – Washington Post
- ~ ‘CSI’ Backlash: Forensics on Trial – Newsweek
- ~ CSI Is a Lie: America’s forensic-investigation system is overdue for sweeping reform – The Atlantic
- ~ CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics – Popular Mechanics
- ~ Exclusive: Evidence was ‘pure junk science at its evil worst’ – MSNBC
- ~ Fallen forensics: Judges routinely allow disavowed science – AP
- ~ Faulty forensic science under fire – Nature.com
- ~ Flawed Forensics – Civil Rights News – Al Jazeera
- ~ Forensic Confirmation Bias- When the Evidence Doesn’t Speak for Itself – HuffPost
- ~ Forensic examiners and truth by assertion – Austin American-Statesman
- ~ Forensic labs prove faulty – The Denver Post
- ~ Forensic science badly lacking in the United States – Nature News
- ~ Forensic Science Isn’t Science. Why juries hear—and trust—so much biased, unreliable, inaccurate evidence.- Slate
- ~ Forensic Tools: What’s Reliable and What’s Not-So-Scientific – The Real CSI – FRONTLINE – PBS – Official Site
- ~ FORENSICS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Mistakes Continue to Highlight the Need for Forensic Science Oversight – Daily Kos
- ~ Mistakes Continue to Highlight the Need for Forensic Science Oversight – HuffPost
- ~ Most Forensic Science Is Bogus. Will New Federal Rules Help? – Gizmodo
- ~ Nature Specials : SCIENCE IN COURT – Nature
- ~ Report: Forensics Rife With ‘Serious Problems’ – NPR
- ~ Report on Forensic Science Challenges Accuracy of Evidence Analyses – HuffPost
- ~ Report questions science, reliability of crime lab evidence – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Science, Standards and Forensics: Part III – HuffPost
- ~ Study: Forensics rely on flawed science – UPI
- ~ The Real CSI – Watch S2012 E10 – FRONTLINE – PBS
- ~ The troubling flaws in forensic science – BBC Future
- ~ Under The Microscope – CBS News
- ~ Unreliable and Unchallenged — ProPublica
- ~ Where Is the Path Forward for Forensics: Part II – HuffPost
Independent News – Flawed “Science“
- ~ An Alarming Amount Of Junk Science Is Admitted As Evidence In Court Cases – IFLScience
- ~ Attorney general to ignore new report finding that commonly-used forensics are bogus – ThinkProgress
- ~ Crime Labs Expose Preventable Forensic Errors – The Justice Project
- ~ Crime labs under the microscope after a string of shoddy, suspect and fraudulent results – AbaJournal.com PDF
- ~ DOJ Tells Forensic Experts To Stop Overstating The ‘Scientific Certainty’ Of Presented Evidence – Techdirt
- ~ ETHICS, MISTAKES & ERRORS IN FORENSIC SCIENCE, FORENSIC LABS – Reddy’s Forensic Page
- ~ Faulty Forensics and Lab Scandals Highlight Urgent Need for Enforceable Scientific Standards – Criminal Legal News
- ~ Faulty Forensics: Explained – The Appeal
- ~ Faulty Science – The Crime Report
- ~ Five Disturbing Things You Didn’t Know About Forensic “Science” – The Intercept
- ~ Flawed Forensic Science – Center on Wrongful Convictions
- ~ Forensic Evidence Isn’t As Reliable As You Might Think – ThinkProgress
- ~ Forensic Experts Fight Over the Problem of Junk Science – The Intercept
- ~ Forensic Science: Problems and Solutions – Innocence Project
- ~ Forensic Science Evidence Trending Towards Less Reliable – CounterPunch.org
- ~ Forensic Science Isn’t Science Why juries hear—and trust—so much biased, unreliable, inaccurate evidence. – Slate
- ~ Forensics Fraud? – Reason.com
- ~ In Criminal Cases, Should Science Only Serve the State? – Reason.com
- ~ Investigative Report Details Flaws in Forensic “Science” – Equal Justice Initiative
- ~ The dangerous shortcomings of forensic science – The Outline
- ~ The Secret Algorithm That Could Send You to Prison, Take Your Kids, or Crash Your Car – The Daily Bell
- ~ This is Why You Can’t Trust “Experts” and Lab Results at Trial – The Daily Bell
- ~ Top 10 Forensic Fails – Listverse
- ~ Thousands of cases compromised due to faulty forensic analysis – Forensic Science in North Carolina
Videos – Arson
~ America’s Guilty Plea Problem: Angela Garcia – YouTube
~ Elite Phoenix Arson Squad Comes Under Fire – YouTube
~ Elite Arson Squad Members Accused of Making False Statements – ABC News – VIDEO
~ Florida’s arson lab loses accreditation, wrongful charges a main concern – YouTube
~ She didn’t set the fire: Fighting for freedom in an arson case – YouTube
Mainstream News – Arson
- ~ Old arson cases reviewed in Texas: Is Douglas Boyington an innocent man? – NBC News
- ~ Phoenix Arson Squad Comes Under Fire – ABC13 Houston
- ~ Phoenix Arson Squad Comes Under Fire for Allegations of Questionable Arrests – ABC News
- ~ Trial by Fire: Junk Science Sent Dad to Prison for Killing Wife, Kids – NBC News
Independent News – Arson
- ~ “Evidence on Fire”: Fire Science Evidence Reviewed – WV Innocence Project – West Virginia University
- ~ Fire Whisperers: the Story of Bad Arson Investigation – The Truth About Forensic Science
Video – Ballistics
~ Evidence Of Injustice – YouTube
Mainstream News – Ballistics
- ~ Ballistics work at D.C.’s crime lab criticized by forensic experts: District’s crime lab “misrepresented” evidence in homicide case, government report says – The Washington Post
- ~ Forensic errors trigger reviews of D.C. crime lab ballistics unit, prosecutors say – The Washington Post
- ~ Police expert lied about credentials – Baltimore Sun
- ~ State Patrol probes work of firearms examiner – The Seattle Times
Videos – Bite Mark Analysis / Forensic Odontology
~ $7.5M bite mark settlement underscores national call for better forensic evidence – YouTube
~ False Positive – A new documentary from Joss Fong – YouTube
~ False Positive: When forensic science fails [Full version] – YouTube
~ Forensic Science Put Me on Death Row for My Teeth – Innocence Ignored – YouTube
~ ‘Garbage’ Evidence: Murder case built on bite mark getting a second look – YouTube
~ How bite marks made one man a murder suspect – Part 1 – YouTube
~ Wrongfully Convicted: Flawed Autopsies Send Two Innocent Men To Jail – YouTube
Mainstream News – Bite Mark Analysis / Forensic Odontology
- ~ Attack of the bite mark matchers – Washington Post
- ~ Bite-mark analysis can lead to false convictions, landmark research shows — ScienceDaily
- ~ Bitemark Analysis: Is It Junk Science? Alfred Swinton was exonerated of a 1991 murder conviction last month based on bite mark evidence. The Innocence Project told Oxygen.com that many people are falsely convicted because of bite mark analysis.- Oxygen
- ~ Bite mark analysis may result in false convictions – Zee News India
- ~ Bite mark analysis, other forensic techniques under review – Richmond.com
- ~ False Impressions: Mary and Peter Bush of the UB dental school had no intention of entering the controversial bite mark debate. Now they’re at the forefront of a movement to free wrongfully convicted prisoners and banish bite mark evidence from the courtroom – At Buffalo – The University at Buffalo Alumni Magazine
- ~ From the start, a faulty science – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Guilty, said bite expert. Bogus, says DNA. – Chicago Tribune
- ~ How the flawed ‘science’ of bite mark analysis has sent innocent people to prison – Washington Post
- ~ Innocent man wrongly sent to prison for 33 years pitches lawmakers on ‘junk science’ bill – Richmond Times-Dispatch
- ~ It literally started with a witch hunt: A history of bite mark evidence – Washington Post
- ~ Jailed Texas man free after 28 years as bite evidence thrown out in murder case – Texas – The Guardian
- ~ The path forward on bite mark matching – and the rearview mirror – Washington Post
Independent News – Bite Mark Analysis / Forensic Odontology
- ~ Bite-Mark Evidence – The Marshall Project
- ~ Cases Where DNA Revealed that Bite Mark Analysis Led to Wrongful Arrests and Convictions – Innocence Project
- ~ How Flawed Science of Bite-Mark Analysis Imprisoned a Man for Murder – The Intercept
- ~ Most agree bitemark matching is junk science. Why is it still in courts? – The Legal Examiner
- ~ Why Bite Mark Evidence Should Never Be Used in Criminal Trials Nearly a quarter of people exonerated since 1989 were wrongfully convicted based on false or misleading forensic evidence, like bite marks.- Innocence Project
Videos – Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
~ ‘Blood Will Tell’ exposes forensic science flaws – YouTube
~ How Accurate Is Blood Analysis In Crime Shows? – YouTube
~ How ‘Subjective Science’ Infiltrated US Courts – YouTube
~ Joe Bryan, Convicted Based on Dubious Blood Spatter Analysis, Released on Parole – YouTube
Mainstream News – Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
- ~ 33 Years After Dubious Evidence Helped Convict Him, Joe Bryan Has Been Released on Parole — ProPublica
- ~ A Bloody Injustice – The Texas Observer
- ~ An expert’s testimony about a bloody towel helped win murder convictions. But it wasn’t blood. – The Washington Post
- ~ Bill Whitaker- Flawed forensics, courtroom bungling take center stage in Joe Bryan hearing – Waco Tribune-Herald
- ~ Blood-Spatter Expert in Joe Bryan Case Says “My Conclusions Were Wrong” — ProPublica
- ~ Blood Will Tell – ProPublica
- ~ Blood Will Tell, Part 1- Who Killed Mickey Bryan? – The New York Times
- ~ Blood Will Tell, Part 2- Did Faulty Evidence Doom Joe Bryan? – The New York Times
- ~ Bloodstain Analysis Convinced a Jury She Stabbed Her 10-Year-Old Son. Now, Even Freedom Can’t Give Her Back Her Life. — ProPublica
- ~ Buffalo man, no longer convicted of wife’s murder, awaits possible release – Springfield News-Leader
- ~ Convicted By Blood: The Case of Brad Jennings – Springfield News-Leader
- ~ Despite ‘Unsupportable’ Bloodstain Analysis, No Relief for Man Convicted of Murder – The New York Times
- ~ Discredited state blood analyst makes final bid for reinstatement — WRAL
- ~ How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus: From his basement in upstate New York, Herbert MacDonell launched modern bloodstain-pattern analysis, persuading judge after judge of its reliability. Then he trained hundreds of others. But what if they’re getting it wrong? – ProPublica Features
- ~ How an Unproven Forensic Science Became a Courtroom Staple – The New York Times
- ~ How an Unproven Forensic Science Spread Through the Criminal Justice System – ProPublica
- ~ ‘I’ll always have a scarlet letter’: Mom cleared after being wrongly convicted of stabbing her son, 10, to death due to bad science says she is still shunned and feels ‘separated from society’ 20 years on – Daily Mail
- ~ Influential Texas Commission Says Blood-Spatter Testimony in Joe Bryan’s Murder Case Was “Not Accurate or Scientifically Supported” – ProPublica
- ~ Is Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Like Testimony Highlighted In Netflix’s ‘The Staircase,’ Biased? Bloodstain spatter expert Duane Deaver’s testimony helped put author Michael Peterson behind bars. But, when it was revealed that he was negligent and lied on the stand, Peterson got a new trial.- Oxygen
- ~ New Evidence That a Man Convicted of Murdering His Wife May Be Innocent – The New York Times
- ~ SBI settles with Clemmons dentist who claimed agents tried to frame him for wife’s killing – Winston-Salem Journal
- ~ She Was Exonerated of the Murder of Her Son. Her Life Is Still Shattered. – The New York Times
- ~ There will be blood, and physics, too- The messy science of bloodstain pattern analysis – NOVA – PBS
- ~ ‘Uncertainties associated with bloodstain-pattern analysis are enormous’- national study – Springfield News-Leader
Videos – DNA
~ Faulty DNA Evidence Is Causing False Convictions – YouTube
~ Justice Unraveled: How flawed forensics will impact high-profile cases – YouTube
~ Why We Can’t Always Trust DNA Evidence – YouTube
Mainstream News – DNA
- ~ Austin crime lab bucked DNA standard for years, yet got passing grades – Austin American-Statesman
- ~ DNA Analysis Exposes Flaws in an Inexact Forensic Science – The New York Times
- ~ DNA Forensic Error and the Execution of Innocents – HuffPost
- ~ DNA in the dock: how flawed techniques send innocent people to prison. Many juries believe crime-scene DNA evidence is watertight – but this is far from the case. As forensic technology gets ever more sophisticated, experts are only just realising how difficult interpreting the evidence can be – The Guardian
- ~ DNA lab irregularities may endanger hundreds of SFPD cases – SF Gate
- ~ FBI notifies crime labs of errors used in DNA match calculations since 1999 – The Washington Post
- ~ Forensics gone wrong: When DNA snares the innocent – AAAS
- ~ Science in court- DNA’s identity crisis – Nature News
- ~ The Problems With DNA Evidence and Testing – The Atlantic
- ~ The Surprisingly Imperfect Science of DNA Testing – FRONTLINE – PBS – Official Site
Independent News – DNA
Videos – FBI
~ FBI admits errors in criminal cases – YouTube
~ FBI admits to decades of flawed forensic testimony – YouTube
~ FBI admits to flawed forensics analyses for cases – YouTube
~ FBI Reviews Flawed Criminal Forensic Evidence – YouTube
~ Flaws in FBI forensics analysis may have helped convict wrong people – YouTube
~ Report says FBI’s flawed forensics put over 60 inmates on death row – Dailymotion – VIDEO
Mainstream News – FBI
- ~ Elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony – CBS News
- ~ FBI admits forensic evidence errors in hundreds of cases – BBC News
- ~ FBI admits forensic lab ‘errors’ against criminal suspects – Daily Mail Online
- ~ FBI admits using faked forensic science to put hundreds of innocent people behind bars (and have some sentenced to death) – CS Globe
- ~ FBI controversy prompts review of Charlotte man’s conviction – Charlotte Observer
- ~ FBI forensic lab misconduct could affect 2,600 convictions, 45 death row cases — RT USA News
- ~ FBI report to show errors affected hundreds of cases – CBS News
- ~ FBI’s Forensic Test Full of Holes – Washington Post
- ~ Federal review stalled after finding forensic errors by FBI lab unit spanned two decades – The Washington Post
- ~ How an ex-FBI profiler helped put an innocent man behind bars – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Justice Dept., FBI to review use of forensic evidence in thousands of cases – The Washington Post
- ~ Prosecutors Knew Of FBI’s Forensics Flaws For Years, The Washington Post Reports – NPR
- ~ Report- DOJ, FBI acknowledge flawed testimony from unit – AP
Independent News – FBI
- ~ FBI Admits Flawed Forensic Testimony Affected at Least 32 Death Penalty Cases – Equal Justice Initiative
- ~ FBI admits it fudged forensic hair matches in nearly all criminal trials for decades – National Post
- ~ FBI Scandal: Flawed Forensics Rampant, Impacted Many Cases – Activist Post
- ~ FBI Scandal- Forensic FBI Experts Give False and Flawed DNA Evidence To Get Convictions – Dallas Justice Blog
- ~ Following FBI Admission of Using Flawed, Invalid Forensic Evidence for Prosecutions, Senators Urge DOJ and FBO to Correct Injustices, Review and Strengthen Forensic Science Evidence Standards – Richard Blumenthal US Senator for Connecticut
- ~ In “Complete Disaster”, DOJ Admits Flawed FBI Work In Hundreds Of Cases – The Crime Report
- ~ Report- ‘Nearly Every’ FBI Forensics Expert Gave Flawed Testimony In ‘Almost All Trials’ Over A 20-Year Period – Techdirt
- ~ The FBI’s Forensics Disaster – Reason.com
Videos – Fingerprints
~ Adam Ruins Everything – Why Fingerprinting Is Flawed – YouTube
~ How reliable is fingerprint analysis? – YouTube
Mainstream News – Fingerprints
- ~ Faulty Fingerprint Analysis Lands Innocent People in Jail – NBC Los Angeles
- ~ Fingering fingerprints: Fingerprints, the touchstone of forensic science, have never been subjected to proper scientific scrutiny – The Economist
- ~ Fingerprints: Infallible Evidence? – CBS News
- ~ LAPD- Innocent People Arrested Due to Faulty Fingerprint Analysis – Fox News
- ~ Not so handy: Fingerprints may be a flawed way of identifying criminals as they aren’t as unique as first thought, says Home Office scientist – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Study Of Faulty Fingerprints Debunks Forensic Science ‘Zero Error’ Claim – ScienceDaily
- ~ The Myth of Fingerprints – Smithsonian Magazine
- ~ Why your fingerprints may not be unique – The Telegraph
Videos – Hair Analysis
~ 5 Investigates: State to review convictions to find faulty hair forensics – YouTube
~ FBI Acknowledges Widespread Flaws In Forensic Hair Analysis – YouTube
~ FBI Admits Flawed Testimony From Hair DNA Data – YouTube
~ FBI admits its hair analysis was flawed for decades – YouTube
~ FBI admits to decades of flawed forensic testimony – YouTube
~ FBI Admits to Flawed Hair Analysis Testimonies – YouTube
~ FBI Forensics Unit – Flaws in Hair Analysis Led To Convictions – YouTube
~ Flawed Evidence- The Limits of Science in the Crime Lab – Retro Report – YouTube
~ Under The Microscope: The FBI Hair Cases | Fault Lines – YouTube
~ WOAH: Forensic ‘Hair Analysis’ Was Wrong For Decades – YouTube
Mainstream News – Hair Analysis
- ~ After FBI admits overstating forensic hair matches, focus turns to cases – The Washington Post
- ~ FBI admits decades of forensic hair analysis evidence was wrong, hundreds of criminal trials to be reviewed – MSN
- ~ FBI admits decades of forensic hair analysis evidence was wrong, hundreds of criminal trials to be reviewed – ABC News Australia
- ~ FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades – The Washington Post
- ~ FBI admits flaws in hair analysis spanning two decades – Chicago Tribune
- ~ FBI admits it gave flawed hair-analysis testimony in hundreds of trials – Los Angeles Times
- ~ FBI hair analysis problems reveal limits of forensic science – AP
- ~ FBI overstated forensic hair matches for decades – Charlotte Observer
- ~ FBI Testimony on Microscopic Hair Analysis Contained Errors in at Least 90 Percent of Cases in Ongoing Review — FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ~ Pseudoscience in the Witness Box The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science. – Slate
- ~ Study: Hair analysis is an unreliable, flawed forensic technique – UPI.com
- ~ Thirty years in jail for a single hair- the FBI’s ‘mass disaster’ of false conviction – FBI – The Guardian
- ~ US Justice Department and FBI admit hair lab testimony was flawed in many cases – News.Com.Au
Independent News – Hair Analysis
- ~ DOJ-FBI Admit They May Have Abused Hair Analysis To Convict Hundreds To Thousands Of Innocent People – Techdirt
- ~ Flawed Forensics- Wrong by a Hair – The Crime Report
- ~ In the Know: FBI Admits Flaws in Hair Microscopy Testimony – Santa Clara Law
- ~ Not a Strand of Evidence Updated – InnocenceProject – DocumentCloud
Videos – Innocent and Wrongfully Convicted
~ A murder solved, 23 years later – Part 3 – YouTube
~ A Plea for Justice, Part 5: Junk Science – Dailymotion – VIDEO
~ Flawed Forensics: Woman’s fate hangs on ‘garbage’ evidence – YouTube
~ Flawed Forensics May Have Wrongly Sent People To Prison for Decades – YouTube
~ Forensic Scientists Speak Out On Daniel Holtzclaw Case- CRTV MMI Season 2 Finale – YouTube
~ How Bad Science Convicted and Executed Innocent People – YouTube
~ How junk science convicted an innocent man – Part 2 – YouTube
~ ‘Junk science’ law exonerates woman of murder – YouTube
~ Junk Science Locks Up Innocent People – YouTube
~ Should people convicted based on poor scientific evidence be given new trials? – YouTube
~ Vox – How junk science convicted an innocent man – Facebook – VIDEO
~ Wrongful Convictions – Bad Science and an Unfair Trial – YouTube
Mainstream News – Innocent and Wrongfully Convicted
- ~ Bad forensic science is putting innocent people in prison – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Bad science puts innocent people in jail, and keeps them there – The Washington Post
- ~ Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept. – The Washington Post
- ~ Courtroom forensic disciplines rely on flawed science, contribute to arresting, jailing innocents – Cleveland.com
- ~ Evidence Of Injustice – CBS News
- ~ Flawed science leads to wrongful convictions – The Columbian
- ~ Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science? – The Nation
- ~ How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system – Salon
- ~ Illinois Innocence Project Claims Many Imprisoned Because of Flawed Forensics – WGLT
- ~ In Las Vegas, Forensic Experts Respond to Scandals and False Convictions – The Intercept
- ~ Justice Dept. admits flaws in forensic testimony in Mississippi death-row case – The Washington Post
- ~ Report: Faulty fire probe led to execution – NBC News
- ~ Report- ‘Irreversible harm’ when FBI didn’t reveal flawed lab work in death-row cases – The Washington Post
- ~ Science has taught us juries rely on flawed evidence for convictions; that’s why the death penalty must go – The Dallas Morning News
- ~ The Case For Innocence – FRONTLINE – PBS
- ~ Top judge says forensic evidence may put innocent people in jail – Australia – NITV
- ~ US reviews 27 death penalty convictions due to FBI errors — RT USA News
- ~ Using Faulty Forensic Science, Courts Fail the Innocent (Op-Ed) – Yahoo! News
- ~ ‘We are going backward’- How the justice system ignores science in the pursuit of convictions. Forensic techniques including bite-mark comparisons and blood-spatter analysis have sent dozens of innocent people to prison – NBC News
- ~ Why forensic science isn’t really science and how it could be killing innocent people – National Post
Independent News – Innocent and Wrongfully Convicted
- ~ 25 Wrongly-Convicted Felons Exonerated By New Forensic Evidence – Forensic Science Technician
- ~ Bad Forensic Evidence Sends Innocents To Prison – Michigan Capitol Confidential
- ~ DNA Proves a Notorious Analyst Engaged in Fraud and Misconduct Leading to Two More Wrongful Convictions, Innocence Project Says – Innocence Project
- ~ False Positive: How flawed forensic science put Robert Lee Stinson in prison for 23 years – Vox
- ~ Faulty forensic test put innocents in jail over decades – TechRepublic
- ~ Forensic Problems and Wrongful Convictions – Innocence Project
- ~ Forensic Science And The Innocence Project – Chemicals & Engineering News
- ~ Overturning Wrongful Convictions Involving Misapplied Forensics – Innocence Project
- ~ The Fallibility of Forensic Science- Crime-Solving Tool Can Lead to Wrongful Convictions—and Belated Exonerations – Criminal Legal News
- ~ ‘They Are Executing an Innocent Man!’- Final Words of Walter Barton Spark Fresh Demand for End to US Death Penalty – Common Dreams
- ~ Top judge says forensic evidence may put innocent people in jail – NITV
- ~ Using Faulty Forensic Science, Courts Fail the Innocent – Live Science
- ~ Why forensic science isn’t really science and how it could be killing innocent people – National Post
- ~ Wrongful Convictions and DNA Exonerations- Understanding the Role of Forensic Science – National Institute of Justice
Videos – Cameron Todd Willingham
~ FRONTLINE – Death By Fire – Season 2010 – Episode 14 – PBS – VIDEO
~ Expert: Errors in arson investigation – 5 pm News – YouTube
~ Forensic Commission restarts Todd Willingham case; Committee to meet in private – YouTube
~ Forensic Science Commission Holding Secret Closed Meetings in Todd Willingham Case – YouTube
~ Nightline: The Wrongful Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham – YouTube
~ Texas’s execution of an innocent man haunts Gov. Rick Perry – YouTube
Mainstream News – Cameron Todd Willingham
- ~ A family asks: Was an innocent man executed for arson murders? – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Cameron Todd Willingham- Former head of Texas forensics panel probing 1991 fire says he felt pressured by Gov. Perry aides – Chicago Tribune
- ~ FRONTLINE – Death By Fire – Season 2010 – Episode 14 – PBS
- ~ ‘Flawed science’ cited in arson case leading to execution – Houston Chronicle
- ~ Fresh doubts over a Texas execution – The Washington Post
- ~ Texas Executed An Innocent Man – Alternet.org
- ~ Texas May Have Executed Innocent Man – NPR
- ~ Texas state board says arson investigators used flawed science – CNN
- ~ Texans wonder if they executed an innocent man – CNN
Videos – Corrupt Technicians – Annie Dookhan
~ 20,000 Convictions Dropped After Massive Drug Lab Scandal – CBS News – VIDEO
~ Chemist gets jail time for tainting evidence – YouTube
~ Corrupt Judges, Lawyers & Criminologists. Wall of Shame. Real CSI Massachusetts. – YouTube
~ Court asked to toss 24,000 state drug cases – YouTube
~ Faked lab results lead to 21k Mass. drug cases dismissed – YouTube
~ More Than 100 Drug Convictions Linked To State Lab Scandal Will Be Vacated – YouTube
~ Prosecutors likely to toss thousands of tainted drug cases – YouTube
Mainstream News – Corrupt Technicians – Annie Dookhan
- ~ 108 Convictions Tied to Massachusetts Chemist’s Misconduct May Be Vacated – The New York Times
- ~ 21,000 drug convictions set to be quashed after Massachusetts chemist tampered with evidence – Sky News
- ~ Almost a decade after Annie Dookhan and the state drug lab scandal, the fallout is growing – MSN
- ~ Annie Dookhan pleads guilty in drug lab scandal – The Boston Globe
- ~ Chemist In Lab Shutdown Handled 50,000 Samples – CBS Boston
- ~ Epic Drug Lab Scandal Results in More Than 20,000 Convictions Dropped – NBC News
- ~ Ex-state chemist Annie Dookhan pleads not guilty in crime lab scandal – masslive.com
- ~ How a lab chemist went from ‘superwoman’ to disgraced saboteur of more than 20,000 drug cases – The Washington Post
- ~ Police evidence routinely falsified by lab technician; 34,000 drug cases may have been falsified – NaturalNews.com
- ~ ‘Stunning’ Drug Lab Scandal Could Overturn 23,000 Convictions – NBC News
- ~ Thousands of Massachusetts convictions tainted by rogue lab chemist tossed – Boston.com
- ~ US crime lab chemist arrest causes reverberations – Chemistry World
- ~ Where is Annie Dookhan Now? Chemist From ‘How To Fix A Drug Scandal’ Didn’t Serve Her Whole Prison Sentence – Newsweek
Videos – Conferences
~ ASU study shows ‘junk science’ used as evidence in court – YouTube
~ Why Michigan Needs a Forensic Science Commission – YouTube
Podcasts
~ Forensic Science and the Wrongful Conviction of Innocent People – KCRW
~ The Appeal Podcast: The Pseudoscience behind Forensic Science – The Appeal
~ The Junk Science That’s Admissible Evidence – YouTube
Videos – Fixing Forensic Science
~ Houston Forensic Science Center – YouTube
Mainstream News – Fixing Forensic Science
- ~ Forensic science braces for change – Nature News
- ~ Forensic science is badly in need of reform. Here are some suggestions – Slate
- ~ Justice Department’s move on scientific evidence reform delays justice – TheHill
- ~ Opinion – Fix the Flaws in Forensic Science – The New York Times
- ~ Opinion – How do we improve forensics- – The Washington Post
Independent News – Fixing Forensic Science
- ~ Fixing Flaws in Forensic Science – The Justice Project
- ~ Fixing Forensic Oversight, a National Priority – Innocence Project
- ~ Fixing the System: Forensics – Injustice Anywhere
- ~ Scientists Looking To Fix The Many Problems With Forensic Evidence – Techdirt
- ~ Will the Return of Science Reinvigorate Forensics Reform? – The Intercept
Reports
- ~ Bite mark evidence: bite mark analysis is not the same as bite mark comparison or matching or identification – Journal of Law and the Biosciences
- ~ Bloodstain pattern analysis as optimisation problem – ScienceDirect
- ~ Bloodstain pattern analysis as optimisation problem – Forensic Science International – Sci-Hub – PDF
- ~ FBI-DOJ Microscopic Hair Comparison Analysis Review — FBI
- ~ FBI Testimony on Microscopic Hair Analysis Contained Errors in at Least 90 Percent of Cases in Ongoing Review — FBI
- ~ Flawed forensics: Statistical failings of microscopic hair analysis – Norton – 2016 – Significance – Wiley Online Library
- ~ Forensic Comparison and Matching of Fingerprints: Using Quantitative Image Measures for Estimating Error Rates through Understanding and Predicting Difficulty – PLOS One
- ~ Hair Analysis Is a Flawed Forensic Technique – Wiley
- ~ Some laboratory studies on the accuracy of bite mark comparison – PubMed
- ~ Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward – The National Academies Press of Sciences Engineering Medicine
- ~ Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward 2009 – FULL REPORT PDF
- ~ REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods Executive Office of the President President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology September 2016 – FULL REPORT PDF
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