CSI on Trial

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4.4 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Juries often take as gospel forensics based on expert opinions and not peer-reviewed findings. There’s now a growing scrutiny of techniques like blood spatter, footwear analysis, bite marks, and arson detection - long accepted as reliable, yet responsible for many wrongful convictions. And efforts to establish meaningful standards to the disciplines are met with resistance from the prosecutors who rely on them. “CSI on Trial” from iHeart and School of Humans examines the veracity of the most common forensic techniques, like ballistics and pattern analysis, as well as misapplied findings of arson and shaken baby syndrome. Host Molly Hermann uses the stories of those freed after wrongful convictions and those still behind bars because of shaky science.

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0:00.0	For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at patreon.com slash partners in crime media.
0:06.4	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Raiders On.
0:17.2	Crime Raiders On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop
0:27.8	culture, other podcasts.
0:29.9	And on this episode, bite marks, arson patterns, blood spatter.
0:34.7	How much science is actually in forensic science?
0:38.4	We'll talk about the new podcast CSI on trial.
0:42.8	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of these
0:47.5	are their stories podcast, my husband and love of my life, Kevin Flynn, hello Kevin.
0:52.1	You ever, you know, like when you eat a hot slice of pizza and you like burn like the
0:55.8	roof of your mouth, like yes, I think I just burned my entire tongue from your tea from
1:01.7	from my tea, like from the tip of my tongue all the way back to the the tart taste buds.
1:08.6	Would you like to show LAR and Toby how large your Yeti cup full of tears?
1:12.6	Look at this.
1:13.6	No, dear Lord.
1:15.1	Yeah, it's big.
1:16.1	It's like one of those yard beers.
1:18.3	Remember we got that Patreon.
1:19.7	It's like a sports parent soccer sideline.
1:23.6	It's huge.
1:24.6	We went to a conference and Patreon invited us to an event and they gave us givebacks
1:29.1	with these like 60 ounce Yeti cups.
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