I am passionate about coerced witnesses. I have watched them, I have heard stories firsthand from girls in prison. I have read about many examples, and written a lot of analysis. Coerced witnesses are basically just liars on the key …
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People say I must be friends with Jean Macean, when I advocate that the legal process should not be influenced by a mob feeding frenzy, publicly trashing and inciting against suspects, and even dragging them in chains to be publicly …
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I don’t know what really happened in the Terry and Brenda Aultman murders, and I am still intrigued that Brenda advertised her location using a Life360 app. But I think Jean Macean is being irrationally targeted for multiple reasons, mainly …
Examining Republican policies is appropriate for this group, because people like Phil Archer are part of some flawed groupthink. They imagine they are doing moral things, or imagine they are being tough on crime like Republicans from the 1980’s and …
It is hard to understand what teachers are doing all day, that Sprowls and DeSantis came up with a new scheme to have parents teach kids to read. The kids whose parents will teach them to read, are probably the …
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There are two things to know about the Crosley Green appeal reversal, 1) there was no Brady violation according to any legal standard, and nobody has produced anything material that was withheld from the defense in any general sense, where …
Radley Balko recently wrote an article on the junk science used to match people to crime scenes and condemn innocents. In the same article, Balko held up DNA evidence as some kind of actual scientific gold standard of evidence. I …
The first day of winter conditioning for the Central Florida football team began with a statement by the strength coach: “Nothing against the returning guys, nothing against that Gasparilla Bowl and beating Florida that’s awesome, but you know what? It’s …
The Innocence Project lists four major categories of false convictions exonerated by DNA: Eyewitness Misidentification (such as from a biased lineup) Misapplication of Forensic Science (such as misstating match probabilities) False Confessions (generally tricked from the young and incompetent) Jailhouse …
Something interesting happened a while back, when a Japanese worker was accidentally exposed to radiation. He did not die immediately. He could still stand and talk and think, his bones were not broken. His basic structure was still intact. But …