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Added Heat In Mississippi Long Simmering Forensics Scandal

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Published on Monday, 15 July 2013 18:26

Radley Balko 06/17/2013 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/steven-hayne_n_3454666.html
Solving Kathy Mabr Murder: Brutal 15-Year-Old Crime Highlights Decades-Long Mississippi Scandal  
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/kathy-mabry-murder-steven-hayne-michael-west_n_2456970.html
A Massive Mess of Forensics   
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/a-massive-mess-of-forensi_b_2365141.html
Examiner, Mississippi's Jeffrey Havard Nears Execution  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/steven-hayne-jeffrey-havard_b_2213976.html?view=print&comm_ref=false
Meckfessel Taylor, K. C., Dirkx, Marielle Elisabet, McIntosh, William and Carrington, William Tucker, 
CSI Mississippi: The Cautionary Tale of Mississippi's Medico-Legal
History (May 23, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2269446

Defense lawyers want review of cases involving pathologist Dr. Steven Hayne http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130616/NEWS01/306160046/Defense-lawyers-want-review-cases-involving-pathologist-Dr-Steven-Hayne?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

Shaken-baby science doubts grow

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Published on Monday, 15 July 2013 18:19

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130630/NEWS01/306300031/shaken-baby-syndrome-brittney-sheets?gcheck=1
Watchdog report: Shaken-baby triad still rules in New York courts http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130630/NEWS01/306300060/Shaken-baby

Experts deride bite marks as unreliable in court

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Published on Monday, 15 July 2013 18:11

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/16/bite-marks-court/2428511/
Men wrongly convicted or arrested on bite evidence 
http://truthinjustice.org/bite-marks.htm



Bites derided as unreliable in court

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Published on Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:03
Bites derided as unreliable in court
http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/AP-IMPACT-Bites-derided-as-unreliable-in-court-4603528.php

At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge's ruling later this month in New York could help end the practice for good. A small, mostly ungoverned group of dentists carry out bite mark analysis and their findings are often key evidence in prosecutions, even though there is no scientific proof that teeth can be matched definitively to a bite into human skin.

AG Martha Coakley calls for independent probe of state drug lab policies and procedures

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Published on Saturday, 03 November 2012 09:31


Boston Globe 31 Oct 2012
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/10/31/martha-coakley-calls-for-independent-probe-state-drug-lab-policies-and-procedures/GuIdMmUxDdPUXz0QI0ycNM/story.html
Attorney General Martha Coakley is asking the governor to appoint an independent investigator to review the policies, practices, and oversight at the state laboratory in Jamaica Plain where a chemist’s alleged mishandling of evidence has thrown thousands of drug cases into question. The attorney general’s office wants to focus on a criminal investigation of Annie Dookhan, the diminutive chemist from Franklin at the center of the drug lab scandal, and let the independent investigator conduct a broader look.

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