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Forensic Science
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Human Rights at Home Blog
Forensics Implementation and Human Rights
By Brian HoweLiliana Segura has an interesting article over at The Intercept about the case of Claude Garrett, who was convicted in 1992 of killing his girlfriend Lorie by (or…
EvidenceProf Blog
The Autopsy Posts: The Prosecution Claimed (Conclusively) That Hae Was Strangled in the Passenger Seat
By Colin Miller
This is my seventh post about autopsies following my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth posts. This post is simply a preview post for posts on conclusions 3-5. I am writing it because I realized that I…
EvidenceProf Blog
The Autopsy Posts: Blunt Force Injuries to the Head and Unconsciousness
By Colin Miller
This is my fifth post about autopsies following my first, second, third, and fourth posts. Once again I will be looking at the autopsy report for Hae Min Lee. As I noted on Monday, the autopsy report stated that "[t]here…
EvidenceProf Blog
Second Lividity/Dual Lividity & Moving a Body During Partially Fixed Lividity
By Colin Miller
This is the third in a series of posts about livor mortis/fixed lividity (first postsecond post). Livor mortis is the settling of blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the…
EvidenceProf Blog
Fixed Lividity/Livor Mortis & What It Means About a Body’s Burial
By Colin Miller
I've been getting some questions about the concept of fixed lividity/livor mortis so I thought that I'd do a quick introductory post on the matter.When blood settles to the bottom,…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Assistant Professor Marc D. Ginsberg: Admissibility of Forensic Autopsy Reports in Homicide Prosecutions
Law and medicine are center stage in a controversy percolating in the state and federal courts concerning the admissibility of forensic autopsy reports in homicide prosecutions when the examining pathologist…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Autopsy “supports the fact that this guy is reaching for the gun…”
...claimed Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist, after the release of the official autopsy of Michael Brown, according to this St. Louis Dispatch report.
EvidenceProf Blog
American Gun: Aurora Shooter James Holmes Tries to Use NAS Report to Preclude Expert Firearm Testimony
By Colin Miller
James Holmes, who allegedly fatally shot twelve people and injured dozens more at the midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises," at an Aurora movie theater, has moved to preclude expert opinion…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
DNA testing ‘conclusively establish[es]’ man’s innocence of 1982 rape, murder
Twenty-six years ago, Kevin Martin accepted a plea sending him to prison for 35 years to life for the rape and murder of 19-year-old in D.C. Although Martin claimed no…
Nashville Criminal Law Report
In Alabama , A Officer’s Word is Good Enough
By Rob McKinney
One of my interests in the many components of the criminal justice is the area of forensic science . There has been a common occurrence of problems in forensic crime labs…