Radley Balko
Person on 4 sites
Investigative journalist writing on policing, forensics and wrongful convictions at The Watch, previously at the Washington Post, Huffington Post and Reason.…
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10 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Bite-mark matching is junk science, and the courts have admitted it for five decades anyway. (opens korrents.com)
“To be clear, bitemark evidence is junk science. There has never been any scientific research to support the idea that bites on human skin can be matched to the teeth of one person, to the exclusion of everyone else.”
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Forensic experts exposed as frauds, and the prosecutors who keep using them, face no consequences. (opens korrents.com)
“And while some courts have ruled that Hayne and West aren’t credible experts, the two men never faced any real accountability.”
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Letting prosecutors pick who performs an autopsy produces the findings prosecutors want. (opens korrents.com)
“Prosecutors tended to choose doctors they could trust to give them the results they wanted.”
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Bite-mark matching is junk science, and the courts have admitted it for five decades anyway. (opens korrents.com)
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39 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Unruly (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh, David Mitchell, the British comedian, has a book came out, I think maybe a year or two ago called Unruly, which somehow manages to make a history of of medieval age British royalty, uh, interesting and funny. Um,…”
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Proof (opens rcmnd.app)
“Proof is fearless journalism with a healthy dose of empathy.”
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Earwitness (opens rcmnd.app)
“She did an incredible job — better than I could have done — and uncovered a ton of important new evidence.”
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Unruly (opens rcmnd.app)