Topic
Forensic Science
179 published works
Simple Justice
Halkides: Bad Forensics in the 1970s British Bombing Cases
Ed. Note: Chris Halkides has been kind enough to try to make us lawyers smarter by dumbing down science enough that we have a small chance of understanding how it’s…
EvidenceProf Blog
Court of Appeals of Maryland Finds Defense Attorneys Couldn’t Have Discovered Baltimore Ballistics Expert’s Lies Before 2007
By Colin Miller
According to a newspaper article headlined, “Police expert lied about credentials,” by Jennifer McMenamin, published 9 March 2007, in the Baltimore Sun, Kopera claimed in court to have degrees that…
Ride the Lightning
Ten REALLY Good Tips from Craig Ball on Better ESI Expert Reports
I absolutely love Craig Ball's impromptu list of ten tips for crafting better expert reports on technical issues in electronic discovery and computer forensics which he included in a post…
EvidenceProf Blog
Article of Interest: “Forensic Science and the Judicial Conformity Problem,” by Katie Kronick
By Colin Miller
Professor Katie Kronick (American University Washington College of Law) has posted "Forensic Science and the Judicial Conformity Problem" (Seton Hall Law Review, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Almost a…
Simple Justice
Halkides: Expectation Bias and the Patricia Stallings Case
Ed. Note: Chris Halkides has been kind enough to try to make us lawyers smarter by dumbing down science enough that we have a small chance of understanding how it’s…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
JOBS: UMKC Innocence Clinic
By Jeff Baker
Supervising AttorneyUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Innocence ClinicThe Midwest Innocence Project (MIP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit legal defense organization dedicated to representing wrongfully convicted prison inmates in our…
Chicago Criminal Law Blog
Forensic fire investigation often riddled with problems: Part II
In our last post, we began a discussion about the problems of forensic fire investigation. It is one of numerous types of forensic testing that is far less reliable (or…
Chicago Criminal Law Blog
Forensic fire investigation often riddled with problems: Part I
Procedural dramas like “CSI” have convinced Americans that forensic science is equivalent to pure, unassailable fact. After all, tests and evidence don’t lie, even if people do. But sadly, this…
The Right Coast
The Citizen Scientist Who Finds Killers from Her Couch
Probably somewhere in north county though.
For Good
Proskauer Represents Forensic Scholars in Successful Amicus Brief Overturning Wrongful Conviction After 40 Years
By Mark Harris, Nicollette R. Moser
On August 24, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, reinstated defendant Ronnie Long’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging his…