Advanced Evidence Spring 2025

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January 13th, 2025
- Edited With George Floyd, a Raging Debate Over Bias in the Science of Death
January 6th, 2025
- Edited Part 2: Advanced Evidence Intro Survey
- Edited Part 1: Advanced Evidence Intro Survey
- Removed Enroll in our Moodle course from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Removed Video Explaining how to use our H20 and Moodle sites from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Added Excerpt from Forensic science: A Judicial Perspective
April 21st, 2024
- Removed Proposed California law re facial recognition and other biometric surveillance from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Removed NY Bill No. A05891B (New York State Assembly) from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Removed THIS READING ASSIGNMENT HAS NOT BEEN FINALIZED from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Added 2024 Maryland law re Facial Recognition Technology
- Added Oakland Becomes Third U.S. City to Ban Facial Recognition
- Added NY State Senate Bill 2023-S1099A: Relates to procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children
- Added Case Update: Texas Trial Court Recommends Melissa Lucio’s Conviction and Death Sentence Be Overturned
April 16th, 2024
- Added THIS READING ASSIGNMENT HAS NOT BEEN FINALIZED
April 7th, 2024
- Edited Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime
- Edited “Why Do Innocent People Confess? Understanding & Challenging False Confessions”
- Removed People v. Rodriquez from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Removed People v. Collins from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Edited The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Howard POWELL, Appellant
- Removed Facial Recognition Technology: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance (NAS 2024) from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Added People v. Williams, 35 N.Y.3d 24 (N.Y. 2020)
March 21st, 2024
- Added Facial Recognition Technology: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance (NAS 2024)
- Added Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
- Added Facial Recognition Technology: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance
March 15th, 2024
- Edited Unreliable bite mark evidence leads to wrongful convictions
March 10th, 2024
- Added OPTIONAL: Mississippi Sup. Ct. decision vacating the conviction of Eddie Lee Howard
- Added Unreliable bite mark evidence leads to wrongful convictions
- Added OPTIONAL Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America
- Added OPTIONAL: Failed Autopsies, False Arrests: A Risk of Bias in Death Examinations
- Added OPTIONAL: "Excited delirium" one step closer to being banned in Colorado
- Added 2023 California Law re Excited Delirium
- Added Bitemark Analysis: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review (March 2023)
- Added OPTIONAL: Response of Forensic Odontology Community to NIST Report
March 3rd, 2024
- Added OPTIONAL: George Floyd's Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America
- Added OPTIONAL: Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression
- Added Writing Reflection #8
- Added "Excited Delirium” and Deaths in Police Custody: The Deadly Impact of a Baseless Diagnosis (Executive Summary)
- Added The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
- Added Contextual information in medicolegal death investigation decision-making: Manner of death determination for cases of a single gunshot wound
- Added How Medical Examiners Shield Violent Cops From Scrutiny
- Added Thousands of missed police killings prove we must address systemic bias in forensic science
- Added Death Investigations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
February 4th, 2024
- Edited Government's Reply to the Motion to Exclude Fingerprint Evidence under Frye
- Removed Proposed Amendment to Fed. R. of Evidence 702 and Committee Note from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Edited Fed. Rule of Evidence 702
- Added OPTIONAL: The Art in the Science of DNA: A Layperson's Guide to the Subjectivity Inherent in Forensic DNA Typing
- Added Excerpt from Murphy, Erin Elizabeth and Tong, Jun, The Racial Composition of Forensic DNA Databases, California Law Review, Vol. 108 (2019).
- Added OPTIONAL: Report of the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules [re. proposed change to Rule 702]
- Added 2023 Changes to Rule 702 and related Advisory Committee Notes
February 1st, 2024
- Removed The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South from Advanced Evidence Spring 2024
- Added This grandfather was mistakenly identified as a Sunglass Hut robber by facial recognition software. He's suing after he was sexually assaulted in jail. - CBS News
January 23rd, 2024
- Edited Writing Reflection #12
January 20th, 2024
- Edited Writing Reflection #2
- Edited Writing Reflection #11
- Edited Writing Reflection #10
December 19th, 2023
- Edited Part 2: Advanced Evidence Intro Survey
- Edited Part 1: Advanced Evidence Intro Survey
- Edited Video Explaining how to use our H20 and Moodle sites
April 19th, 2023
- Edited New West Virginia Law to Address Wrongful Convictions
April 4th, 2023
- Edited Memorandum from Robert Ferarri, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, to Justice Maxwell Wiley re. People v. Dean (Jan. 8, 2016)
- Edited Motion to vacate the conviction of Eddie Lee Howard, Jr.
April 1st, 2023
- Added The Slow but Steady March Towards a More Reliable Forensic Science
- Added Proposed California law re facial recognition and other biometric surveillance
- Added The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Howard POWELL, Appellant
March 11th, 2023
- Annotations changed on Williams v. United States
March 4th, 2023
- Added Writing Reflection #8
- Added DOJ Uniform Language for Testimony and Reports
- Added Recommendation of the National Commission on Forensic Science on Examiner Language
- Added Holcomb Motion to Limit Examiner's testimony
- Added Williams v. United States
March 1st, 2023
- Edited Writing Reflection #9
- Edited Writing Reflection #11
February 3rd, 2023
- Edited Proposed Amendment to Fed. R. of Evidence 702 and Committee Note
January 16th, 2023
- Added OPTIONAL: Garbage In, Gospel Out: How data-driven policing technologies entrench historic racism and tech-wash bias in the criminal legal system
- Added Excerpt from Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 43 F.3d 1311 (9th Cir. 1995)
January 6th, 2023
- Added Video Explaining how to use our H20 and Moodle sites
January 4th, 2023
- Removed Course overview video from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023
- Edited Writing Reflection #2
- Edited Read the Course Syllabus
- Edited Writing Reflection #1
- Edited Writing Reflection #13
- Edited Writing Reflection #12
- Edited Writing Reflection #11
- Edited Writing Reflection #10
- Edited Part 2: Advanced Evidence Intro Survey
- Edited Part 1: Advanced Evidence Intro Survey
November 3rd, 2022
- Added OPTIONAL: Can cats at a crime scene help find key DNA evidence?
November 1st, 2022
- Added Op-Ed: Black people are wrongly convicted more than any other group. We can prevent this
October 27th, 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #10
- Added The NYPD's new DNA dragnet: The department is collecting and storing genetic information, with virtually no rules to curb their use
- Added End guilt by genetic association in N.Y.
- Added People v. Rodriquez
- Added People v. Collins
- Added DNA Mixtures: A Forensic Science Explainer
- Added PCAST Report
September 15th, 2022
- Added OPTIONAL: Forensic scientists are generally whiter, less diverse than US population they serve, study says
September 7th, 2022
- Edited Chapter 61 in Learning Evidence (Merritt & Simmons)
September 5th, 2022
- Added Course overview video
August 2nd, 2022
- Edited Writing Reflection #12
- Removed California Senate Bill 923 from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Removed Wrongful Convictions of Youth Clinic from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Removed False Confessions Resources from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Removed False Confessions & Interrogations from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Removed FalseConfessions.Org from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Removed New York Youth Need Attorney Before Interrogation, Coalition Tells State Lawmakers from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Edited Writing Reflection #11
- Removed Gerald Gault, Meet Brendan Dassey: Preventing Juvenile False and Coerced Confessions in the 21st Century from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Removed Writing Reflection #19 from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Edited Writing Reflection #10
- Removed Playing with Fire: How Junk Science Sent Claude Garrett to Prison For Life from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Removed Convicted Of A Murder That Didn’t Happened --The Claude F. Garrett Story from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Removed Fresh Doubts Over a Texas Execution: New evidence revives concerns that a man was wrongly put to death in 2004 from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Edited Writing Reflection #9
- Edited Memorandum from Robert Ferarri, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, to Justice Maxwell Wiley re. People v. Dean (Jan. 8, 2016)
- Edited Motion to vacate the conviction of Eddie Lee Howard, Jr.
- Removed Video Instructions for our Moodle Course Page from Advanced Evidence Fall 2022
- Added Proposed legislation in California
- Added Writing Reflection #7
August 1st, 2022
- Casebook first published.

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