If you’re looking for an end-of-summer read, the Forensic Book Club has selected The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South for its next read. We’ll meet virtually to discuss it on Sept 21 at 6 pm. It’s a fascinating chronicle of how a medical examiner and a …
Bite Mark
He was convicted based on allegedly fabricated bite mark analysis. Louisiana wants to execute him anyway.
There’s a junk science crisis in criminal convictions. Sonia Sotomayor calls it out in Alabama bite-mark case.
Bite mark analysis has no basis in science, experts now say. Why is it still being used in court?
Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has reviewed the scientific foundations of bitemark analysis, a forensic technique in which marks on the skin of a biting victim are compared with the teeth of a suspected biter and found that the field is not supported by sufficient data. NIST has published its findings in …
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CIFS Bite Mark Video is Now Available on YouTube
The Center for Integrity in Forensic Science (CIFS) has released their first animated video. The video explores the problematic use of bite mark comparison evidence in the justice system. CIFS’s primary goal in creating the video is to raise public awareness about the flaws in bite mark evidence and educate potential jurors on its unreliability. …
Federal Report Adds to the Evidence That Bitemark Analysis Is Nonsense
Yet another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis. The courts still won’t care.
Teeth marks convicted him, but the science didn’t hold up. 37 years later he’s still in an Alabama prison.
Duty to Correct
Opinion: Another victim of America’s greatest forensics fraudster has been exonerated
Murder charge dismissed after debunked bite-mark testimony
NIST Scientific Foundation Reviews
Document outlining NIST’s approach to conducted scientific foundation reviews (including data sources used, evaluation criteria, and expected outputs) of DNA mixture interpretation, bitemark analysis, digital evidence, and firearms examination.
OSAC Registry Approved Standards
Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Evidence (OSAC) is developing documentary standards for each forensic discipline. Standards under consideration as well as approved standards are available in the OSAC Registry.
Eddie Lee Howard, Jr. v. State of Mississippi
Bite mark case where conviction was reversed based on changes in the science being newly discovered evidence.