Bitemark Analysis Problems Disclosed 10 Years Ago by CBS 60 Minutes
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View ArticleAfter 20 years in prison, man cleared in ’86 Waukegan rape
By Dan Hinkel Chicago Tribune reporter Surrounded by his attorneys, Bennie Starks speaks to the media after his court case was dismissed in the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan today. (Stacey...
View ArticleLeigh Stubbs Bitemark Case Vacated
A judge has thrown out the convictions of two women after having each served 11 years in prison. Innocence Project lawyers were able to show critical evidence was withheld at the time of the trial. A...
View ArticleDentist now doubts science of bite-analysis
Written by Jerry Mitchell Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Leigh Stubbs and Tami Vance were jubilant on June 28 after the state Supreme Court threw out their convictions. Dr. Michael West, an expert...
View ArticleInnocence Project’s New Strategic Litigation Unit Takes on Bite Mark Evidence…
Posted on August 14, 2012 by Mark Godsey http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org From press release: THE INNOCENCE PROJECT (IP) is a national litigation and public policy organization based in New York...
View ArticleCases Where DNA Revealed that Bite Mark Analysis Led to Wrongful Arrests and...
From the Innocence Project http://www.innocenceproject.org/ Forensic science errors are a leading cause of wrongful convictions nationwide. Scientific errors, fraud or limitations were a factor in...
View ArticleA Statement Why Court Opinions On Bitemark Analysis Should Be Limited
By C.Michael Bowers December, 1996 Let’s think for a moment concerning what our wish list would be for bitemark analysis, our profession’s only controversial subject. I would start with an admission...
View ArticleState Attorney Ignores Science, Impedes Starks’ Full Exoneration
From The Innocence Project Today’s Innocence Blog Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT Four months after former Illinois inmate Bennie Starks was exonerated of a rape conviction that DNA evidence proves he...
View ArticleForensic Failings: How to Improve the Forensic Sciences and Prevent Wrongful...
New York Society of Forensic Dentistry September Meeting: Monday, September 24, 2012 7:00 PM at NYU College of Dentistry 24th Street & First Avenue – Room 612 Summary: Chris Fabricant, Director...
View ArticleJanesville man’s invention changed forensic science 25 years ago
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 • JANESVILLE, WI by NEIL JOHNSON ( Contact ) Saturday, March 16, 2013 JANESVILLE — Janesville engineer and physicist Bill Hyzer was renowned for decades as a pioneer in...
View ArticleBennie Starks
NORTHWESTERN LAW BLUHM LEGAL CLINIC Center on Wrongful Convictions A prosecutor finally did the right thing – 26 years after a wrongful conviction — Rob Warden Bennie Starks had been behind bars for...
View ArticleU.S. Mississippi Death Row Case Faults Bite-Mark Forensics
By ERIK ECKHOLM SEPT. 15, 2014 NEW YORK TIMES In one of the country’s first nationally televised criminal trials, of the smirking serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida in 1979, jurors and viewers alike...
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