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by brian
Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:17 pm
Forum: Litigation Topics
Topic: Lab technicians are not infallible!
Replies: 3
Views: 4560

Re: Lab technicians are not infallible!

More background material on the cases surrounding the unusual move by the Supreme Court for a re-review of the Melendez-Diaz v Massachusetts decision: Dec 20, 2009, Adam Liptak, New York Times, reported in the Boston Globe: Justices revisit ruling forcing lab analysts to testify as Attorneys general...
by brian
Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:31 pm
Forum: Litigation Topics
Topic: Lab technicians are not infallible!
Replies: 3
Views: 4560

Lab technicians are not infallible!

Jan 7, 2009: Los Angeles Times editorial The price of justice The Supreme Court should not backtrack on its ruling that the defense has a right to cross-examine experts who present lab reports for the prosecution. At a time when television crime dramas suggest that forensic testing is infallible, ju...
by brian
Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:58 am
Forum: Litigation Topics
Topic: Should Prosecutors Be Sued by People They Frame?
Replies: 4
Views: 6785

Re: Should Prosecutors Be Sued by People They Frame?

Another article on the prosecutorial malfeasance in the Iowa case of Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee, wherein the two men spent 26 years in prison for a murder that they did not committ. The case was before the Supreme Court to determine whether the Prosecutors should be sued for framing the men ...
by brian
Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:06 am
Forum: Litigation Topics
Topic: Should Prosecutors Be Sued by People They Frame?
Replies: 4
Views: 6785

Re: Should Prosecutors Be Sued by People They Frame?

Jan 4, 2010: Case over Iowa prosecutors' conduct is settled By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- A multimillion-dollar settlement on Monday ended the Supreme Court's consideration of a case that could have changed the legal protections that criminal prosecutors get as they...
by brian
Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:58 pm
Forum: TBI, Concussions, Head Injury
Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury
Replies: 8
Views: 18445

Re: Traumatic Brain Injury

Jan 4, 2010: Ex-chair of NFL brain panel denies link to disease By LARRY LAGE, AP At the US House of Representatives Committee Judiciary Hearing on Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries , Ira Casson, a neurologist from New York and former co-chairman of the NFL's panel on head injuries, st...
by brian
Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:57 pm
Forum: Distracted Driving
Topic: 2010: Stop cell phone use and texting while driving!
Replies: 11
Views: 358342

Re: 2010: Stop cell phone use and texting while driving!

Ore. phone ban has loophole, challenges expected (link no longer active) Jan 4, 2010: By BRAD CAIN , Associated Press Writer SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The new Oregon cell-phone law may be a problem to enforce because it exempts motorists who are on their hand-held cell phones " in the scope of the p...
by brian
Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:56 pm
Forum: Distracted Driving
Topic: "Intexticated" Drivers
Replies: 10
Views: 15219

Re: "Intexticated" Drivers

For additional infromation on cell phones and driving be sure to also see the new McHenry Software forum topic: 2010 News on Cell Phones and texting while driving
by brian
Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:55 pm
Forum: Distracted Driving
Topic: STOP Cell phone use while driving!
Replies: 11
Views: 18501

Re: STOP Cell phone use while driving!

For additional infromation on cell phones and driving be sure to also see the new McHenry Software forum topic: 2010 News on Cell Phones and texting while driving
by brian
Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:53 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Photogrammetry v Total Station
Replies: 1
Views: 2616

Re: Photogrammetry v Total Station

The following is a link to science direct for a paper we were asked to review ack in 2007/2008 related to the use of photogrammetry: Geometry features measurement of traffic accident for reconstruction based on close-range photogrammetry Xinguang Dua, , , Xianlong Jina, b, Xiaoyun Zhanga, Jie Shena ...
by brian
Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:42 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Photogrammetry v Total Station
Replies: 1
Views: 2616

Photogrammetry v Total Station

While digging through some references, I came across the following report by VTRC ( Virgina Transportation Research Council ) Use of photogrammetry as a tool for accident investigation and reconstruction :A review of the literature and state of the practice by Arnold, E. D. Abstract: One of the key ...