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The Annie Dookhan case in Massachusetts is an even bigger mess than was the Jonathan Salvador debacle in Texas. If you don't remember Ms...

What a packed agenda at the Texas Forensic Science Commission on Friday in Austin! Take a look , there's a lot happening. Here's a n...

Today I compiled these resources for a colleague on Texas and federal reviews of flawed forensics in hair microscopy cases and thought there...

Busy day today but here are several items that merit Grits readers attention, even if I don't have time to fully adumbrate them.  DA d...

As the Forensic Science Commission this week in Fort Worth discussed Texas' nascent review of convictions involving possibly erroneous h...

Here are a few odds and ends that haven't made it into full, individual posts since my return from Mexico City but which still deserve G...

Texas should consider creating a statewide public defender office to handle habeas corpus writs related to flawed forensics, an adviser to G...

Jordan Smith at the Austin Chronicle has a brief story (Jan. 13) on the review of potentially faulty forensics in older cases using hair mi...

How should the criminal justice system respond when forensic errors or malfeasance occur on a large scale, affecting hundreds or even thousa...

It would be a shame if culture war debates over the death penalty were to overshadow an important inquiry by the Texas Forensic Science Comm...

At last week's Texas Forensic Science Commission Roundtable (an event co-sponsored by the Court of Criminal Appeals' Criminal Justic...

Excellent news for those concerned with the lack of rigor in certain forensic science disciplines, this time hair and fiber analysis. The Wa...

Having recently examined advice being given to judges on how to interpret the science or lack thereof behind ballistics evidence , I thought...