Methodological Features of Validating Forensic Expert Techniques

Progress of Forensic Tracking Techniques Progress of Forensic Tracking Techniques

Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Programme Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission services) Abstract This deliverable ...

Forensic experts' perceptions of expert bias.

How do expert witnesses perceive the possible biases of their fellow expert witnesses? Participants, who were attendees at a workshop at the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law were asked to rate for their biasing potential a number of situations that might affect the behavior of an opposing expert. A Rasch analysis produced a linear scale as to the perceived biasing potential of these diffe...

Countering Hostile Forensic Techniques

Demonstrable Reliability and Expert Forensic Pathology Evidence

In recent years, a number of public inquiries have highlighted the importance of safeguarding the criminal justice system—and protecting the accused who are tried under it—from the possibility of wrongful conviction.... “[t]he names of Marshall, Milgaard, Morin, Sophonow and Parsons signal prudence and caution in a murder case” ... In the case at bar, we consider once again the need to carefull...

Forensic dentistry expert dies at 87.

English): The identification of a murderer and the eventual conviction was largely due to forensic dentistry and in particular the use of bite marks on the victim compared with casts of the teeth of the accused. The Bundy case has become notorious in American legal circles. MeSH: Bites, Human -history (major); Forensic Dentistry -history; History, 20th Century; Homicide -history (major); Humans...