This is the video that just been released showing the landmark committee decision to recommend banning bitemark evidence in Texas Courts. The video starts at the point that the committee begins the presentation by lead Counsel, Lynn Garcia, on the findings of the sub committee – and then you can …
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Yesterday we reported the case of Steven Chaney who was convicted largely on the basis of a bitemark – and one that was linked to a spurious statistical claim that 1 to a million chance of it being caused by someone else. Late yesterday afternoon the case went before the Dallas …
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This is a fascinating case told in the Medical Detectives series. The case involves identification from teeth in two ways – the first, the identification of the victim from their dental records (using the presence of a mesiodens to assist) and secondly, the identification of the potential suspect – by …
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In a tribute to Warren Harvey, a pioneering forensic dentist in the UK, Dr Allan Gaw presents the details of the Biggar Murder. One of Harvey’s greatest cases, and certainly one of the most comprehensive write ups of a case ever seen, was the Biggar Murder from Scotland. A case in …
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The expert whose bite-mark evidence led a jury to put Eddie Lee Howard Jr. on Mississippi’s death row now believes such evidence should be tossed. “I no longer believe in bite-mark analysis,” forensic odontologist Michael West of Hattiesburg testified in a 2012 deposition. “I don’t think it should be used …
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Man serving life term loses bid to overturn murder conviction The California Supreme Court says that William Richards, 63, had failed to prove his innocence in the 1993 killing of his wife, even though forensic evidence used against him was later discredited. “But when you’ve got the expert who testified …
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This is a developing story with,as of yet, no clear conclusion – latest update October 2014 (see bottom of page). .. A long and lengthy legal battle has a new chapter today (14th March 2014) as the State of Ohio Court of Appeal reverses the decision of a lower Court …
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Robert Lee Stinson served over 23 years in a Wisconsin prison for a brutal rape and murder DNA proves he did not commit. He was convicted based on the improper and unvalidated expert testimony of a bite-mark analyst whose conclusions were uncontested at trial. The Crime Early in the morning …
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This is one of our series concerning wrongful convictions related to bitemark evidence. Certainly the Krone case was one of the highest profile cases involving bitemarks. We have collected a range of resources here in relation to the case. If you own copyright to any of them and object to …
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