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Time to ban junk science from courtrooms

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Kicking off Flawed Forensic Science Week, here's a notable excerpt from an op ed in the Houston Chronicle ("It's time to ban junk science from Texas courtrooms," Oct. 2) from Jeff Blackburn, Gary Udashen and Cory Session (Timothy Cole's half brother) from the Innocence Project of Texas on the need to ferret junk science out of Texas courtrooms and redress wrongful convictions from the past:There are few things more convincing to a jury than scientific evidence presented by expert witnesses called by the state in a criminal case. Sometimes, however, the so-called science used by prosecutors isn't science at all.Many Texas defendants have been convicted when fraudulent or invented forensic techniques were presented as scientific truth at trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 03, 2010 (boomark / email).

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