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OPTIONAL: Forensic Science Isn’t Science
1.1.11.4
https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/forensic-science-is-biased-and-inaccurate-but-juries-believe-it-and-convict-the-innocent.html
OPTIONAL: Forensic scientists are generally whiter, less diverse than US population they serve, study says
1.2.11.3
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2F2022%2F09%2F08%2Fforensic-scientists-ethnic-racial-diversity-study%2F8007522001%2F
OPTIONAL: Garbage In, Gospel Out: How data-driven policing technologies entrench historic racism and tech-wash bias in the criminal legal system
1.2.11.8
https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/eb6a04b2-4887-4a46-a708-dbdaade82125/garbage-in-gospel-out-how-data-driven-policing-technologies-entrench-historic-racism-and-tech-wash-bias-in-the-criminal-legal-system-11162021.pdf
OPTIONAL: George Floyd's Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America
3.3.8.2
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/george-floyds-autopsy-and-the-structural-gaslighting-of-america/
OPTIONAL: Jeff Sessions Doesn’t Understand the Necessity of Science: His decision to kill the National Commission on Forensic Science betrays a lack of understanding about how to assess good evidence.
1.1.11.5
https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/the-dangers-of-killing-the-national-commission-on-forensic-science.html
OPTIONAL: Mississippi Sup. Ct. decision vacating the conviction of Eddie Lee Howard
4.8.2
https://courts.ms.gov/Images/Opinions/CO148586.pdf
OPTIONAL: National Registry of Exonerations
1.1.11.1
https://exonerationregistry.org/cases?f%5B0%5D=false_or_misleading_forensic_evidence_466%3A1
OPTIONAL: Pages 67-68 and 83-87 in Chapter 5 of the 2016 PCAST Report on “Bitemark Analysis.”
4.8.3
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/pcast_forensic_science_report_final.pdf
OPTIONAL: Paws for a moment: Investigation of bi-directional transfer of human DNA during a short human–dog interaction and subsequent indirect transfers
3.1.8.5
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355030625000966?via%3Dihub
OPTIONAL: Perpetuating the Presumption of Guilt: The Role of Implicit Racial Bias in Forensic Testimony
1.2.11.4
https://forensicjusticeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Perpetuating-the-Presumption-of-Guilt-The-Role-of-Implicit-Racial-Bias-in-Forensic-Testimony.pdf
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