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• Microsoft Software for Police Use Leaks onto P2P Sites

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 432
  photo credit: download.cnet.com After last week’s hot talks about Congress members bringing sensitive data home and inadvertently sharing it through file sharing software, now a new leak makes the headlines. Microsoft’s digital forensics software made its appearance on p2p networks, The Inquirer reports. ...
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• Reducing forensic backlogs source of rare agreement at hearing

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 573
  At the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing today on the Forensic Science Commission, the only reform that new commission chair John Bradley truly sounded enthusiastic about was reducing backlogs at crime labs, so I was interested to see this report out today from CBS News analyzing backlogs in various ...
  16 hours ago

• Dave Mann on Todays Capitol Events

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Dave Mann covered todays Senate Criminal Justice Committee meeting and the Rodney Ellis, Barry Scheck news conference that followed.  Hes posted, " The Willingham Hearing ," at his Texas Observer blog. Mann has written an impressive series of articles for the Observer uncovering other flawed Texas arson cases, noted ...
  18 hours ago

• Archived Video of Senate Hearing & Ellis, Scheck News Conference Available

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Streaming video of this mornings Texas Senate Criminal Justice hearing on the Forensic Science Commission has been posted to the Archived Video section of the Senate website, here . Following the hearing, Senator Rodney Ellis held a news conference with Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck.  Its also ...
  19 hours ago

• Workplace Violence -- How to recognize its warning signals

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Last weeks shooting at Fort Hood was a criminal act of senseless violence against innocent victims whod done nothing to harm their assailant. As the FBI, army officials, police investigators and forensic psychologists continue to piece together the events and motives behind this brutal act, many of us scratch our ...
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• State Farm’s expert[sic] all wet: Bossier v State Farm trial update

  
  slabbed — Authority: 479
  In a written statement Monday, State Farm said “… based on the testimony of both parties, it is clear that Mr. Bossier and State Farm have different views regarding whether it was wind or storm surge that destroyed Mr. Bossier’s home. Different views, indeed. Why else would there be a trail? It was their ...
  22 hours ago

• Today’s Senate Criminal Justice Committee Hearing

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 135
  Today is the day that Williamson County DA, and chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission John Bradley goes before the Senate Criminal Justice Committee to talk about the commission and the future of the investigation into the Willingham case. Kuff, Meet John Bradley , Grits, Secrecy at forensic commission not ...
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• Secrecy at forensic commission not justified based on weak investigative powers

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 573
  Im headed up to the capitol a little later this morning to watch the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing on the Forensic Science Commission at 10 a.m. , where new commission chairman and Williamson County DA John Bradley will explain to the committee why he shut down all commission activities ...
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• John Green on Bigfoot Breasts

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 566
  In the intriguing new database archives of the British Columbian Sasquatch investigator, an analytic gem was discovered. Images.
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• Meet John Bradley

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 146
  So today is the day that Sen. John Whitmire gets to grill Williamson County DA John Bradley, the new Chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, about his plans for the Commission and the status of the Willingham case. I very much look forward to hearing what Bradley has to say even if I have little faith in his ...
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• "Todd Willingham was a good friend of mine here who died a horrible death for a crime he did not commit."

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 480
  Below is an excerpt from Hank Skinners " Hell Hole News #17 " (October 15, 2009). Mr. Skinner (pictured left) discusses at length his relationship with Cameron Todd Willingham , a fellow inmate sitting on Texas death row for the murder of his three infant daughters. Todd Willingham was executed by lethal ...
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• Texas resists familys effort to clear executed mans name

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 480
  Ardmore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Cameron Todd Willinghams family here in Oklahoma never believed he set the fire that killed his three daughters. "We could not even imagine it," his cousin, Patricia Cox, recounted recently. "That was completely ludicrous to us." But 16 days after the fire, Willingham was arrested. And ...
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• Texas autopsy center subject to open records laws?

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 566
  An autopsy center with offices in Beaumont, Conroe and Tyler has asked the state attorney general to determine whether it is subject to the Texas Public Information Act.The Longview News-Journal has the story:The Southeast Texas Forensic Center … submitted the question to the state Oct. 6 after a Central Texas ...
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• The Smell Test

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the title of an editorial in todays Houston Chronicle.  Its subtitled, " Canine witnesses need tighter judicial leashes ." With very little science to back them up, so-called scent lineupshave been used extensively to convict defendants in Texas courts. Dogs sample the odor ofa suspect and several other ...
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• ohn Bradleys OpEd

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The OpEd, " Panel on forensic science to establish ground rules ," by John Bradley appeared in the Saturday Houston Chronicle. I am John Bradley, the elected district attorney in WilliamsonCounty and the new presiding officer of the nine-member Texas ForensicScience Commission. I am writing to introduce myself, ...
  2 days ago

• More on John Bradley

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " Surprises under Williamson DAs image ," is the title of Miguel Liscanos Austin American-Statesman report.  It appeared in the Sunday edition. Through 22 years as a prosecutor, the pasteight as Williamson County district attorney, Bradley has amassedconvictions and accolades, developing a tough-on-crime ...
  2 days ago

• Microsoft COFEE - Much ado about nothing

  
  Computer Forensics | Digital Forensics — Authority: 106
  Image via Wikipedia Well the big story today is that Microsofts law enforcement only tool, COFEE has been leaked to the internet and is a big hit on the torrent download servers. I did not bother to locate a download source for it, since I am not supposed to have a copy of it.  However, I did locate a link to ...
  2 days ago

• "Microsoft’s COFEE forensics tool leaks online" and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 158
  Neowin.net / All secret Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) has leaked online, available for all. COFEE is a forensics tool, approximately 15MB in size that fits on a USB drive for law enforcement officials to use in PC forensics More here: "Microsoft’s COFEE forensics tool leaks online" and ...
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• "GameStop / Retailers Break Modern Warfare 2 Street Date" and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 158
  Planet Xbox 360 For whatever reasons, several GameStops in the northeastern US broke Modern Warfare 2’s Nov. 10 street date and began selling it early this weekend. Here is the original:  "GameStop / Retailers Break Modern Warfare 2 Street Date" and related posts
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• Kennedy killer’s photo not faked, says expert

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 9 (IANS) A computer scientist has unearthed new evidence to show that a well-known photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy’s alleged killer, was not fake.Hany Farid, a pioneer in digital forensics at Dartmouth College, analysed an iconic image of Oswald, pictured in a backyard setting, ...
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