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forensic evidence

  1. uvar

    Merged FBI gave flawed / overstated testimony in nearly all trials before 2000

    No specific trial, but potentially one hell of an error. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html?hpid=z1
  2. catsmate

    Another UK miscarriage of justice?

    In 1993 Susan May, then aged 48, was convicted of the murder of her aunt, Hilda Marchbank, at the latter's home in Royton. Ms. May was her aunt's principal carer and visited her several times a day; it was she who discovered the body and called the police. Initially the murder was thought to...
  3. Chris_Halkides

    DNA evidence in the Hank Skinner case

    Hank Skinner has just been granted a stay of execution for the 1993 murders of his girlfriend Twila Busby and two adult sons. He and his attorneys wish to test items such as fingernail scrapings from his girlfriend, the rape kit, the windbreaker jacket, and the murder weapon. It is pertinent...
  4. Kestrel

    Dead skin cells don't contain DNA?

    In another thread, the assertion was made that dead skin cells don't contain DNA. Based on my knowledge, I can't see any support for this idea. Yet this fact was stated in court by a prosecution expert witness and accepted by the court as true. Rather than drag all the experts into a he said...

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