
Cognitive Biases in the Peer Review of Bullet and Cartridge Case Comparison Casework: A Field Study
Abstract
Objective
Forensic judgments and their peer review…

Fingerprint Analysis is High-Stakes Work—But It Doesn’t Take Much to Qualify as an Expert
BRENDAN MAX AND two of his colleagues in the Cook County, Illinois,…

Making Sense of Science XIII – April 2-4, 2020
Big Names. Big Science; a Big-Time CLE Experience!
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Burned by ‘Bad Science’ A Doctor’s Questionable Opinion Can Help Send Caregivers to Prison
A prosecutor projected a grisly photo onto a screen for the jury.…

PD9 Hosts Its Annual Law Camp with the Boys and Girls Club
This summer, Robert Wesley, Public Defender of the Ninth Circuit,…

There Will Be Blood, and Physics, Too: The Messy Science of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
David Camm lost 13 years of his life to eight drops of blood.
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State Supreme Court Blasts Renowned Forensic Scientist Henry Lee and Throws Out 1989 Murder Convictions of Two New Milford Men
In a unanimous decision released Friday afternoon, the…

The Myth of Fingerprints
At 9:00 a.m. last December 14, a man in Orange County, California,…

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Could Fingerprint Scanners Replace Check-In Lines at Airports, Baseball Games and Hospitals?
When Apple introduced an electronic fingerprint scanner to…