#147 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Bloodstain Pattern Evidence
Wrongful Conviction
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4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Josh Dubin, civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and Innocence Ambassador to the Innocence Project in New York explores bloodstain pattern evidence with Pamela Colloff, senior reporter at ProPublica and staff writer at The New York Times Magazine.
Bloodstain pattern experts falsely claim that they can identify the culprit of violent crimes by examining the shape and distribution of bloodstains from a crime scene. But, bloodstain pattern evidence has no grounding in any verifiable science. So how did this kind of junk science become admissible?
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Pamela Coloff’s two part story on the Joe Bryan case Blood Will Tell - ProPublica
Part 1 https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/mickey-bryan-murder-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/
Part 2 https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/joe-bryan-conviction-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/
National Academy of Sciences: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf
https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science
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