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- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...