June 29, 2017 Science organizations renew call for independent U.S. committee on forensics Washington Post The commission was created after critical reports from the National Academy of Sciences about a dearth of standards and funding for crime labs, examiners and researchers, problems it traced partly to law enforcement control over the system.June 7, 2017 Jeff Sessions’ Rejection of Science Leaves Local Prosecutors in the Dark Slate An independent commission established by Barack Obama in 2013, the NCFS was meant to bring together scientists, judges, crime lab experts, prosecutors, and defense attorneys to analyze and improve the field of forensic science, which encompasses the many ways science is deployed in criminal justice. The group was established partially in response to a scathing report from the National Academy of Sciences that highlighted the lack of standards for crime labs nationwide and was attempting to review and improve this and other forensic science shortcomings.May 8, 2017 We Must Strengthen the "Science" in Forensic Science Scientific American (Blog) In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences evaluated the state of forensic science and, shockingly, concluded that many of the techniques used in court actually have no scientific validity.April 26, 2017 Judge denies motion to toss out gun evidence in murder trial Columbia Daily Tribune In the motion, Wallis cited a 2009 National Academy of Sciences report that criticizes many forensic methods that law enforcement uses to examine evidence. Wallis wrote that the report concluded that “forensic individualization has not been proven” and the only reliable form of forensic analysis is DNA comparisons.April 26, 2017 Richland’s Watts Makes the Case for Elected Coroners Columbia Free Times Some don’t agree with Watts’ assessment. The National Academy of Sciences gave the complete inverse of Watts’ view in a 2009 report, coming out against coroner elections and supporting appointed medical examiners. April 25, 2017 Science takes a back seat in Trump’s first 100 days McClatchy News This month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced he was eliminating the National Commission on Forensic Science, an advisory panel of scientists, judges, crime lab leaders, prosecutors and defense lawyers. The panel was formed after a 2009 National Academy of Sciences report found serious flaws in how forensic evidence was being used in criminal cases.April 24, 2017 Jeff Sessions Wants Courts to Rely Less on Science and More on "Science" Mother Jones In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued a landmark study that shook the field of forensics. Only nuclear DNA analysis, the report found, could "consistently, and with a high degree of certainty," link an individual to a crime.April 21, 2017 21,000 Reasons Scalia Was Right Bloomberg View Despite the perfection with which TV technicians match bullets to particular guns, a landmark 2009 study of criminal forensics by the National Academy of Sciences found that ballistics tests had little demonstrated scientific accuracy -- or, in the polite language of the report, “the validity of the fundamental assumptions of uniqueness and reproducibility of firearms-related toolmarks has not yet been fully demonstrated.” April 20, 2017 Sessions's Assault on Forensic Science Will Lead to More Unsafe Convictions Newsweek (Opinion) The NCFS was itself a response to a separate report—released in 2009—by the National Academy of Sciences which concluded that “no forensic method has been rigorously shown to have the capacity to consistently, and with a high degree of certainty, demonstrate a connection between evidence and a specific individual or source.”April 18, 2017 Is Crime Forensics Flawed? Big Think Even so, it hasn’t even been established that everyone’s fingerprints are unique, according to the National Academies of Sciences. Because of this, no reliable experts will testify that fingerprint evidence has an error rate of zero. April 15, 2017 AG Sessions: Forensic Science Panel That Helps Keep Innocent People Out of Prison Is Unnecessary Atlanta Black Star In addition, in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences reported that the forensic science system is unreliable and has ”serious problems” requiring a national commitment to overhauling it.April 14, 2017 Q&A: The U.S. Department of Justice scrapped independent forensics panel, but the scientific questions ‘are not going away’ Science Magazine For most of his career, the microbiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, paid the discipline little attention, but he did notice the field-shaking 2009 report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which found that many forensic techniques, from fingerprint comparisons to bloodstain pattern analysis, lacked a firm scientific footing.April 14, 2017 One year after release, Keith Harward travels country to point out failures of forensic science, help the wrongly convicted Richmond Times-Dispatch He also will continue to campaign against bite-mark evidence, which is what brought him to Washington this week for the National Commission on Forensic Science, created in 2013 after a 2009 National Academy of Sciences report that raised questions about the validity of bike-mark comparison and other pattern evidence, such as tool marks.April 14, 2017 Critics worry 'junk science' to reign as forensic panel ends Associated Press The creation of the commission stemmed from a series of crime lab failures and a 2009 report by the National Academy of Sciences revealing forensic evidence like bite marks and hair samples that often helped convict defendants was based on shoddy science. It called for far-ranging improvements. A wave of exonerations followed and ultimately the formation of the commission.April 13, 2017 Crime-Solving Isn't a Science (But It Could Be) Bloomberg A more insidious problem came to light following an investigation led by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) back in 2009, and later a White-House-commissioned report headed by some of the country’s most respected scientists.April 13, 2017 Jeff Sessions Is Keeping Junk Science in America's Courts Rolling Stone Sessions also rejected the findings of a 2009 report of the National Academy of Sciences that Congress had commissioned in light of DNA exonerations showing hundreds of people had been wrongly convicted in cases involving inaccurate forensic testimony; Sessions said he worried that examining validity of evidence used in courts would "leave prosecutors having to fend off challenges on the most basic issues in a trial."April 13, 2017 Most criminal forensic science isn’t real science. Jeff Sessions just shut down efforts to change that Washington Post (Blog) Your book, however argues that the “bottom line” is that “most of forensic science lacks a basis in science,” a finding that has a National Academy of Sciences report to back it up. April 13, 2017 Do judges contribute to injustices? A conversation with Judge Jed Rakoff ABA Journal For example, a great deal of forensic science has now come under scrutiny from the scientific community. In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a report that was highly critical of most forensic science other than DNA. And this included things well-regarded by many people—fingerprinting, hair analysis, bite-mark analysis, arson analysis and so forth.April 11, 2017 Another Reprieve for Expert Testimony That Is Anything But New York Times Those nonscientific qualities had been surveyed by the National Academy of Sciences in a 2009 report, and in another study issued in September by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. April 11, 2017Sessions Is Wrong to Take Science Out of Forensic Science
Broadcast Transcript WNYC-FM (Radio) - New York, NY The Obama administration created the panel about four years ago after the National Academy of Sciences uncovered faulty techniques and resource problems. Scholars point out that many crime labs operate under the direct or indirect control of prosecutors and police, raising questions about their independence.April 10, 2017 Sessions orders Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission, suspend review policy Washington Post The commission was created after critical reports by the National Academy of Sciences about a dearth of standards and funding for crime labs, examiners and researchers, problems it partly traced to law enforcement control over the system.April 10, 2017 Trump’s Justice Department won’t use outside experts to improve forensics Quartz In 2009 the National Academy of Sciences said forensic science needed a complete overhaul, questioning the reliability of widely used types of evidence such as bite marks, hair analysis, and fingerprints. April 10, 2017 Salk professor criticizes disbanding of federal forensics committee that included scientists The San Diego Union-Tribune In 2014, Albright co-led a report from the National Research Council that outlined precautions to avoid biasing the testimony of eyewitnesses. For example, during interviews of eyewitnesses, neither the witness nor the questioner should know the suspect’s identity. This “double blind” method is considered the gold standard in biomedical research.April 4, 2017 Label the limits of forensic science Nature But, generally, problems persist. In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences documented reams of faulty forensic practices.March 30, 2017Playing it safe: Proactive steps from DA on forensic evidence
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Washington Post Yates’s proposal is among the broadest responses to a National Academy of Sciences panel report in February 2009 that questioned subjective comparisons of evidence by experts. The Genetic Panopticon Boston Review The exciting news is that, to some extent, this is now happening, and not just in Houston. Many observers, including the National Academy of Sciences in a prominent 2009 report, have called for a “research culture” in forensics. March 7, 2016 February 20, 2016 |
The NAS Report of 2009 was critical of pattern Analysis how have things changed since then
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