Breathalyzers and Beyond: The Unintuitive Meanings of "Measurement Error" and "True Values" in the 2009 NRC Report on Forensic Science

Five years ago, the National Research Council released its eagerly awaited and repeatedly postponed report on "Strengthening Forensic ...

Forensic Science’s Latest Proof of Uniqueness

A federally funded study on the "Determination of Unique Fracture Patterns in Glass and Glassy Polymers" affirms that fracture-pat...

Error on Error: The Washington 23

Frequently cited in warnings on the risks of errors in DNA typing is a 2004 article prepared by unnamed staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligen...

Error on Error: Quashing Brian Kelly's Conviction

Are there any errors in DNA testing? Are there any errors that produce false positives? Do DNA databases generate any false leads? Do false ...

Get Serious: The US Department of Justice's Amicus Brief in Haskell v. Harris

As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit returns to the question of the constitutionality of California's DNA database law, th...

Maryland v. King: The Dissent's Ten Second Rule

The four dissenting Justices in Maryland v. King insisted that DNA databases and fingerprint databases are as different as night and day. A...

Webinar: Geolocation Artifacts and Timeline Analysis in Digital Forensics

Using Geolocation Artifacts and Timeline Analysis to Solve the Case: A Digital Forensics Case Study http://info.magnetforensics.com/Digital-...

Maryland v. King: When Being Smart and Witty Isn't Enough

Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion in Maryland v. King , the arrestee-DNA case, has been praised as "one of the best Fourth Amendm...

Our Registry Forensics Master Class is now Live!

I am very happy to announce that the Registry Forensics Master Class that I developed in conjunction with 504ENSICS is now live. The mast...