Military Court Tells Jury to Disregard Forensic Evidence

The issue in this case isn’t that the ana­lyst “failed to iden­tify a fin­ger­print”. The issue is that the gov­ern­ment failed to dis­close this infor­ma­tion which goes to show the reli­a­bil­ity of the ana­lyst in the case.

To be clear, fail­ure to iden­tify a print isn’t the same thing as mak­ing a false-positive match, like the FBI did

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Scathing Article About Houston PD Crime Lab

A recent Houston Chronicle edi­to­r­ial blasts the Houston Crime Laboratory. The arti­cle starts off by stating:

On tele­vi­sion, on the police drama CSI (for Crime Scene Investigation), the bril­liant, ded­i­cated com­pletely pro­fes­sional staff of the Las Vegas Police Department solves every crime that comes into its hands through flaw­less foren­sic sci­ence and with iron­clad integrity each

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Forensic Examiner Charged with Perjury

We’ll have to keep on eye on this case. The Alaska Daily News arti­cle indi­cates a latent print exam­iner from the Anchorage Police Department who has their own con­sult­ing busi­ness has per­jured them­selves regard­ing their back­ground, train­ing and experience.

On Aug. 24, Halterman gave sworn tes­ti­mony by phone on a pend­ing case from Iowa in

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