Tag Archives: scent evidence

Sensationalized IRS Smokescreen, No. 2

Obama Dismisses New Benghazi Furor But Condemns I.R.S. – NYTimes.com Mr. Obama’s comments about the I.R.S. left the agency and its leadership alone in answering charges that its employees had put added demands on Tea Party and other conservative groups … Continue reading

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Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Mass. Legal System In Turmoil : NPR

A scandal in a Massachusetts crime lab continues to reverberate throughout the state’s legal system. Several months ago, Annie Dookhan, a former chemist in a state crime lab, told police that she messed up big time. Dookhan now stands accused … Continue reading

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Florida Today scams subscribers, advertisers, shareholders again, splashing whitewash all over memory lane.

Norm Wolfinger looks back on 28 years as state attorney | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com The name-calling likely will taper off. Wolfinger, 67, retired last week and is looking forward to a more welcoming nickname — Papa. via Norm Wolfinger … Continue reading

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Ashton in charge; let the cronyism begin! (and Lamar’s corruption continue)

Jeff Ashton state attorney hires – OrlandoSentinel.com Ryan Williams, who left the office last year in order to run for state attorney, will return to the State Attorney’s Office as chief of the agency’s Intake Bureau, Ashton told the Orlando … Continue reading

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James Russo: The Indolence Epistles

My 2008 correspondence with Brevard/Seminole, Florida Public Defender James Russo preceded my years-in-the-making realization that the mainstream media wasn’t short on information regarding conviction corruption and in need of this outsiders insight; they already had all the skinny, but keep … Continue reading

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Still No Ruling on Texas Murder Appeal Despite Faulty Evidence – NYTimes.com

“Richard Winfrey Sr. is beside himself. He cannot understand why the state’s highest criminal court has taken more than six months and still not decided whether his 24-year-old daughter should be acquitted of murder when the primary evidence used against … Continue reading

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A Holocaust of FBI Law Enforcement Practices Comes to Light | Prism Magazine

“The right angle to this is huge. The FBI is agreeing to look at 10,000 cases when in fact the FBI taught local, state and federal crime lab personnel this analytical technique for decades. That means in this nation alone … Continue reading

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When Dillon sings the Star Bangled Banner for the Tampa Bay Rays tonight, he’ll be singing the blues …

Wrongly convicted man sings for the Rays – Tampa Bay Times “Dillon calls the Rays his team and would love to wear his Rays cap, though of course you don’t when you are singing the most patriotic of songs. He … Continue reading

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I haven’t forgotten Jennifer Ellis-Seitz

Before her name became hyphenated, Jennifer Ellis worked – unhappily – as a crime reporter at Florida Today. She left the newspaper around the time of Wilton Dedge’s DNA-exoneration. Ellis-Seitz went missing from the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship on Christmas … Continue reading

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Conviction Integrity Units – a necessity for every state

Within the knowledge of our Justice Department, thousands of US convictions are clouded by the use of DNA-discredited dog handlers and medical examiners, outdated fire and blood-splatter forensics, the FBI’s self-debunked Comparative Bullet Analysis, and much more. While I’m encouraged … Continue reading

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