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In The News

2017-02-16 | Police Department in Dallas Loses Years of Evidence After Cyberattack
In early January, Collin Beggs, a criminal defense lawyer in Dallas, was talking with a Dallas County prosecutor about police video evidence that he'd been trying to get for months on behalf of one of his clients. The prosecutor explained that he wouldn't be receiving the video evidence he needed as part of a case involving the Cockrell Hill Police Department, which serves a town of about 4,300 people near Dallas. The reason? "They got hacked by Russians," Beggs tells Mother Jones, "and they held them up for ransom and took all their stuff. They didn't pay to get it back, so they lost all their videos.'"

2017-02-14 | Keith Harward lashes out at field of forensic dentistry that helped wrongly convict him
Since Harward’s 1983 and 1986 trials, bite mark evidence has been questioned and undermined by numerous studies, and erroneous bite mark analyses have played a part in at least 28 wrongful convictions and arrests across the country. Chris Fabricant, one of Harward’s lawyers with the Innocence Project, also spoke at the workshop and outlined Harward’s case. “We know from our experience that any conviction that rests on bite mark evidence is inherently unreliable. It’s just reality.”

2017-02-14 | McGovern: DA fighting for twin’s DNA test to be accepted in trial
New twin-splitting technology is being put to the test for the first time ever in a Hub courtroom this week, and Suffolk prosecutors hope the new-age science can finally help solve a pair of rapes that occurred nearly 15 years ago. An old DNA test couldn’t separate the chief suspect in the case, Dwayne McNair, from his identical twin brother, Dwight McNair. That issue put Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley in a tight spot, and in 2014 he temporarily dropped charges stemming from a pair of 2004 rapes so he could see if a new test developed in Germany would work.

2017-02-09 | Insufficient Funding for Forensic Science Puts Justice at Risk
"Progress has been made, but some forces say they can’t afford to deliver both operational work and the required standards of forensic science. The standards are not an unachievable “gold-plated” ideal - they are the minimum standards expected of any reliable forensic science."

2017-02-09 | European Agency Releases Forensic DNA Guide
The report makes reference to landmark cases including cases where DNA has been a game changer - helping to catch prolific serial killer Gary Ridgway - and where it has caused miscarriages of justice - Adam Scott being detained and charged with rape due to a contamination error whilst subsequent phone records placed him in a different city at the time of the crime.

2017-02-08 | New $90M Alaskan Crime Lab Falls Short, Says Audit
A $90 million crime lab was built in 2012 with the promise of improving forensic services throughout the state known as “the Last Frontier.” However, a newly released audit of the facility finds that no further services are being offered, many are outsourced to other states—and backlogs exist in virtually all disciplines at the Anchorage site.

2017-02-06 | More than 2,600 Orlando-area lawyers get letters warning about fingerprint expert
The Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office has sent more than 2,600 letters to Orlando-area defense attorneys, warning them that their clients may have been harmed by a fingerprint expert who made mistakes. The defendants involved include Casey Anthony, acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, and death-row inmate Bessman Okafor, convicted of murdering a man in 2012 to keep him from testifying at Okafor’s trial. At issue is whether any suspects were wrongly arrested, convicted, jailed or punished because of the work of Marco Palacio, a 18-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

2017-02-06 | Man Exonerated Based on DNA Mixture After Serving 16 Years
Two men who served decades behind bars for a brutal 1989 gang rape have both been released and exonerated, based on complex DNA mixture interpretation. The rape charge and conviction of Roosevelt Glenn—which had kept him for in prison for 16 years—were tossed out last week by an Indiana Superior Court Judge. “The court finds that newly discovered evidence exists which entitles Roosevelt Glenn to a new trial … The court finds the state is unable to retry Roosevelt Glenn,” ruled Honorable T. Edward Page on Jan. 30. “The court concludes that the criminal charges against Roosevelt Glenn … should be dismissed.”

2017-02-04 | Florida fingerprint analyst may have mishandled hundreds of cases
Shocking allegations have come out of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, which has removed a fingerprint analyst because of mistakes he’s made in cases. The state attorney’s office cites multiple job performance issues, including clerical errors, failure to identify what prints are important and the mislabeling of fingerprint cards. The widespread impact dates back to 2001. In question are at least 877 closed cases.

2017-02-02 | Houston Forensic Science Center Eliminates Digital Backlog
A year ago, it would take an average of 110 days to process a cellphone or other digital evidence at the Houston Forensic Science Center. Now that average has been pushed down to a little over two weeks for audio or video materials, and 24 days for digital analysis, the Center announced this week. A long-standing backlog at the HFSC’s Digital and Multimedia Evidence Section has been cleared, they said.