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Forensic holodeck to transport jury to the crime scene

Guilty or innocent? To help them decide, judges and juries are often presented with reams of evidence: crime scene photos, medical documents or suspected...
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Judge tosses out two types of DNA testing

A Brooklyn judge has stirred up controversy by tossing out two types of DNA proof routinely applied in criminal circumstances all through the city. Justice...
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DNA Test That Distinguishes Identical Twins May Be Used in Court for First Time

In 2004, two young women were abducted at gunpoint while walking home near Boston at night. The crimes happened eight days apart, but the...
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Amid Conflicting Accounts, Trusting Darren Wilson

In four hours of vivid testimony before the St. Louis County grand jury in September describing his shooting of Michael Brown, the officer said...
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Historic Scottish Trial: First Conviction Under New ‘Double Jeopardy’ Law

Angus Sinclair's retrial for the brutal murders of Christine Eadie and Helen Scott was the first to take place following changes made in Scotland...
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How the courts trap people who were convicted by bad forensics

By Radley Balko - Washinton Post - November 17, 2014 In a short opinion issued last week, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
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Canadian court rejects fingerprint evidence

In 2013, R. vs Bornyk was heard in the Supreme Court of British Columbia before The Honourable Mr. Justice Funt. The case is centered on a single...
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Can Juries Rely on Forensic Psychologist and Psychiatric Experts?

Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who testify in court tend to slant their findings based on who hired them, according to a study released in September 2013. Researchers...
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Mathematics in Forensic Science

Mathematics is fast becoming one of the most important techniques in crime detection. Where once a Sherlock Holmes would have had to be content...
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Vermont Supreme Court rules that DNA collection to unconstitutional

In a landmark decision, the Vermont Supreme Court has deemed a section of Vermont’s DNA collection statute to be an unconstitutional invasion of personal...
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