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Feigned Consensus: Usurping the Law in Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma Prosecutions

February 4, 2019 //  by Sarah Olson

Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1461, 2019 by Keith Findley et al. This article, coauthored by four law professors, two physicians, and a physicist, demonstrates that there is very much a live controversy about the SBS/AHT hypothesis and maintains that, under traditional principles of Evidence law, physicians should not be permitted to …

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Resource Category: Featured ArticlesForensic Discipline: Child Abuse Allegations

American Bar Association Standards on DNA Evidence

December 16, 2018 //  by Sarah Olson

Standards and best practices for the collection, preservation, and testing of DNA evidence and for its use at trial, published in 2018.

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Resource Category: Reports and PublicationsForensic Discipline: DNA

New Approaches to Digital Evidence Acquisition and Analysis

October 30, 2018 //  by Sarah Olson

Overview of NIJ research on new approaches to acquiring and analyzing digital media.

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Resource Category: Featured ArticlesForensic Discipline: Digital Evidence

Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS): In Scientific Evidence, Even ‘Gold Standard’ Techniques Have Limitations

September 6, 2018 //  by Sarah Olson

by Joanna Gin and Edward Imwinkelreid. UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper, available for free download. Like nuclear DNA testing, GC/MS analysis has important limitations. Courts should not assume it is a nearly infallible technique. When GC/MS is used in drug testing, the court must inquire as to the mode of analysis: full scan, selective …

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Resource Category: Featured ArticlesForensic Discipline: Arson, Drug Analysis, Toxicology

DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST): Participant Manual

February 1, 2018 //  by Sarah Olson

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Resource Category: BooksForensic Discipline: Toxicology

Randy Papetti, The Forensic Unreliability of The Shaken Baby Syndrome

February 1, 2018 //  by Sarah Olson

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Resource Category: BooksForensic Discipline: Child Abuse Allegations

NC DHHS Drug Evaluation & Classification Program

January 1, 2018 //  by Sarah Olson

Contains information about requirements for DRE certification and the DRE protocol for North Carolina.

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Resource Category: Reports and PublicationsForensic Discipline: Drug Recognition Experts

State v. McPhaul, 256 N.C. App. 303 (2017)

November 7, 2017 //  by Sarah Olson

The Court of Appeals applied the new Daubert test for expert testimony and held that trial court abused its discretion by allowing the State’s expert witness’s testimony about fingerprint evidence. A petition for discretionary review was granted by the NC Supreme Court which subsequently found that discretionary review was improvidently granted, leaving intact the Court …

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Resource Category: CasesForensic Discipline: Fingerprints

Forensic DNA Analysis: A Primer for Courts

November 1, 2017 //  by Sarah Olson

In Nov. 2017, the Royal Society published this primer to assist the UK judiciary when handling DNA and serology evidence in the courtroom. The primer provides a good introduction to forensic DNA analysis, including a description of different types of DNA mixture interpretation software.

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Resource Category: Reports and PublicationsForensic Discipline: DNA

North Carolina Juvenile Defender Manual: Chapter 7, Capacity to Proceed

October 4, 2017 //  by Alec Rees

Chapter 7 of the Juvenile Defender’s Manual (Oct. 2017) focuses on juvenile defenders who may lack the capacity to proceed.

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Resource Category: Reports and PublicationsForensic Discipline: Mental Health

Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis – Latent Fingerprint Examination

September 15, 2017 //  by Sarah Olson

The 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis – Latent Fingerprint Examination found that while latent fingerprint examiners can successfully rule out most of the population from being the source of a latent fingerprint based on observed features, insufficient data exist to determine how unique fingerprint features …

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Resource Category: Reports and PublicationsForensic Discipline: Fingerprints

Marijuana-Impaired Driving A Report to Congress

July 4, 2017 //  by Sarah Olson

July 2017 NHTSA report – The report describes the absorption, distribution and elimination of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinal (THC) the primary psychoactive substance in marijuana, in the body. It contrasts this process with the absorption, distribution and elimination of alcohol in the body, as they are very different processes. The poor correlation of THC concentrations in the blood …

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Resource Category: Reports and PublicationsResource Source: NHTSAForensic Discipline: Drug Recognition Experts, Toxicology

Making Sense of Forensic Genetics

April 16, 2017 //  by Sarah Olson

This 2017 guide presents information about DNA forensics in a way that is accessible to both a general audience and legal professionals. It focuses on topics such as the context in which DNA evidence is discovered, DNA databases, statistics, and use of DNA to predict appearance or ancestry.

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Resource Category: Reports and PublicationsForensic Discipline: DNA

The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis

March 1, 2017 //  by Sarah Olson

John T. Wixted and Gary L. Wells published this article in Mar. 2017 finding that eyewitness confidence and accuracy are strongly related in pristine lineup conditions. Where lineup conditions are non-pristine, accuracy of even a high confidence suspect ID is seriously compromised. Pristine line-up procedures include using only one suspect per lineup; the suspect should …

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Resource Category: Reports and PublicationsForensic Discipline: Eyewitness ID

David L. Faigman et al., Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony

January 1, 2017 //  by Sarah Olson

Vol. 1-5 available in the IDS Forensic Library. Forensic Resource Counsel also has access to the latest edition of the eBook.

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Resource Category: BooksForensic Discipline: Foundations of Forensics

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