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• Bradley’s secrecy looks problematic

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 135
  Via the Star-Telegram, (via Grits), Chairman of Texas forensic science panel oversteps his authority . What is it John Bradley doesn’t want the public to know about the work of the Texas Forensic Science Commission? [...] Star-Telegram reporter Dave Montgomery wrote Saturday that commission staff coordinator ...
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• Chairman of Texas forensic science panel oversteps his authority

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 536
  The title of this post is the headline of a Fort Worth Star Telegram editorial today chastising Williamson County DA and Forensic Science Commission Chairman John Bradley for an array of recent moves aimed at clouding the commissions work in secrecy. Bradley wants to make meetings closed, records secret, and now hes ...
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• Bradley’s penchant for secrecy

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  I don’t know what John Bradley’s goals are as the Chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. But if one of them is to dispel the notion that he’s Rick Perry’s stooge, who was installed for the purpose of covering the Governor’s ass on the Cameron Todd Willingham case, then he’s doing it wrong . ...
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• U.K. cops arrest people ‘just for the DNA’

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Britain has built the worlds biggest DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, a watchdog said. read more
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• More on the Forensic Science Commission

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  Dave Montgomery reports, " New forensic commission e-mail policy goes in wrong direction, lawmaker says ."  The article appeared in the Saturday edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Members of a state commission examining the case of Cameron ToddWillingham have been asked to delete e-mail correspondence, a ...
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• New Look Of The Little Lady of Flores

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 608
  This is the new complete-body reconstruction of LB1, Homo floresiensis , by the Parisian paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès. Images.
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• Hobbits Not Diseased, Notes Dec. 2009 Study

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 608
  We can no longer ignore the reality that a population of very small hominoids lived concurrently with Homo sapiens . Images.
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• Television’s Effect on Juries

  
  Yodle Local Articles — Authority: 156
  As with pretty much any television show that is based on a real life situation or career, from emergency rooms to magazine offices, TV makes it all seems so glamorous. And why wouldn’t it? In less than one hour producers, have the task of introducing an interesting and original plot, adding in just the right amount ...
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• Yeti Hair Sample

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 608
  A followup seems in order. Images.
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• Letter: Stanley Ellis obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Brian MacDonald writes: I had the privilege of using Stanley Ellis (obituary, 14 November) a number of times as an expert witness when I was an investigator for HM Customs. I first met him in 1989, when I gave him a short lift to Isleworth crown court. We spoke only briefly during the car journey, and as he got out ...
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• Court denies bail to William Heum, to stay in judicial custody

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Chennai, Nov 19(ANI): A Chennai court on Thursday dismissed the bail petition by William Heum, a Dutch national, who has been charged under the new IT Act for digital child pornography.Additional Public Prosecutor D L Raja said that the bail was denied considering the seriousness of the case.While, addressing the ...
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• CSI: Texas

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  Thats the title of an editorial in todays Houston Chronicle.  LINK Try to imagine how the writers and actors of the three popular CSI: Crime Scene Investigation dramas on TV would handle this story line: After numerous wrongfulconvictions of innocent Texans using flawed evidence, particularly incases processed ...
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• Chennai court sent Heum to judicial custody

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Chennai, Nov 18 (ANI): William Heum, a Dutch national, who has been charged for child sex, has been sent to 15 days judicial custody by the Saidpet Magistrate Court here on Wednesday.Disclosing this to the media Chief Public Persecutor said Heum has confessed his crime.“William confessed about having affairs with ...
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• OpEd Roundup - Texas Broken Criminal Justice System

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  " Texans too quiet about their state’s broken justice system ," is the title of an OpEd by J. Todd Moye in the Sunday Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  Moye is a member of the Star-Telegrams 2009 Community Columnist Panel. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously dismissedconcerns about the death penalty in ...
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• FSC Should Do Its Work in Public

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  " Texas commission reviewing complaints about handling of forensic evidence in criminal cases should work in public ," is the title of the editorial from the Saturday edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. John Bradley, new head of the Texas Forensic Science Commission,says he wants the panel to work with ...
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• Government’s stand sought on compulsory DNA tests of unidentified corpses

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday sought the central government’s stand on a lawsuit seeking compulsory DNA profiling of thousands of unidentified dead persons recovered annually across India.A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S. Chauhan sought the ...
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• Texas: Death sentences have dropped sharply after life without parole became possible

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 527
  While the debate over capital punishment rages anew in Texas, new inmates going to death row have hit a 35-year low as prosecutors are pushing for fewer death sentences and, many believe, juries have become less willing to give them. Various factors have contributed to a stark decline in death sentences and a ...
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• Texas accounts for half of executions in US but now has doubts over death row

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 527
  Overturned convictions and growth of DNA forensic evidence shake states rock-solid faith in capital punishment. Even in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes more people than any other by far – it will account for half the prisoners sent to the death chamber in the US this year – is seeing ...
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• Adjusting to life after death row

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 527
  John Thompson (pictured) spent 14 years on death row for crimes he did not commit. Convicted of killing New Orleans hotel executive Ray Liuzza, and for a carjacking weeks later, he was preparing to be sent to his death at the notorious Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana - the largest maximum security prison in ...
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• Should we be concerned about killing innocent people?

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 135
  A new Rasmussen poll (tip to Texas Politics ), shows that 26% (of Americans) are not very or not at all concerned about the possibility of the wrong person being executed for a crime.  It’s likely that number goes down when someone in that 26 percentile gets indicted for a crime the didn’t commit.  But it’s ...
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