Case Story : Aim High

Military criminal defense attorneys contacted me to aide in the defense of a US serviceman who was charged with committing a drive-by shooting. I reviewed the case material, and said I didn’t think I would be able to help much, because the evidence I needed to examine had been destroyed when the government was

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More on Melendez-Diaz

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The article opens up with this statement:

Get ready to trade your lab coat for a suit coat. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last Thursday will require crime lab analysts to appear in court and submit to cross-examination if their reports are entered into evidence. This ruling could

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MELENDEZ-DIAZ v. MASSACHUSETTS

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The recent Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts has sent a shockwave through the forensic science community in the United States.

In a community comment forum for forensic scientists, there was a comment from an analyst from another country, that stated they didn’t see what the big deal

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Amazing Defensive Technique

I was recently required to come testify on an old case I worked for a local police department a number of years ago. The actual work I performed was hardly a “case breaker”.

I simply looked at casings and projectiles recovered by police and inter-compared them, so see if they were fired from the same

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Casefile: Aim High

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Good forensic scientists are supposed to be impartial. Their job is to simply explain to a jury what the physical evidence means in a case. Forensic scientists don’t have a horse in the race, so to speak. Regardless of which side calls them for testimony, some forensic testimony can help

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