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How do we improve forensics? Part 6

August 26, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

How do we improve forensics? Part 6Read More

From Ted Bundy to Charles Finch: James Coleman reflects on career in criminal law

August 23, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

From Ted Bundy to Charles Finch: James Coleman reflects on career in criminal lawRead More

Judge releases Dontae Sharpe after 24 years in prison

August 23, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

Judge releases Dontae Sharpe after 24 years in prisonRead More

DNA analyst in UT student’s strangulation case resigns over incorrect courtroom testimony

August 23, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

DNA analyst in UT student’s strangulation case resigns over incorrect courtroom testimonyRead More

N Carolina man declared innocent in 1979 dorm murder

August 22, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

N Carolina man declared innocent in 1979 dorm murderRead More

Man convicted of killing St. Augustine’s college student 30 years ago is set free

August 22, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

Man convicted of killing St. Augustine’s college student 30 years ago is set freeRead More

Another innocent person is exonerated after falsely confessing. Here’s how these coerced confessions happen

August 22, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

Another innocent person is exonerated after falsely confessing. Here’s how these coerced confessions happenRead More

Flaws in Cellphone Evidence Prompt Review of 10,000 Verdicts in Denmark

August 21, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

Flaws in Cellphone Evidence Prompt Review of 10,000 Verdicts in DenmarkRead More

Murder convict wore Superman cape, compared himself to Dracula, during confession

August 20, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

Murder convict wore Superman cape, compared himself to Dracula, during confessionRead More

‘I feel lucky, for real’: How legalizing hemp accidentally helped marijuana suspects

August 18, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

‘I feel lucky, for real’: How legalizing hemp accidentally helped marijuana suspectsRead More

Did faulty science, and bad testimony, bring Larry Swearingen to the brink of execution?

August 17, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

Did faulty science, and bad testimony, bring Larry Swearingen to the brink of execution?Read More

Maryland Court Rules Marijuana Odor Not Enough To Search A Person

August 16, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

Maryland Court Rules Marijuana Odor Not Enough To Search A PersonRead More

N.Y.P.D. Detectives Gave a Boy, 12, a Soda. He Landed in a DNA Database.

August 15, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

N.Y.P.D. Detectives Gave a Boy, 12, a Soda. He Landed in a DNA Database.Read More

DeKalb County is latest to begin dismissing marijuana cases

August 15, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

DeKalb County is latest to begin dismissing marijuana casesRead More

After decriminalization, pot smell and joint didn’t justify search, court says; hemp laws also raise issues

August 14, 2019 // by Sarah Olson

After decriminalization, pot smell and joint didn’t justify search, court says; hemp laws also raise issuesRead More