More on the Mistakes in “Forensic Science Isn’t Science”

In " Flawed Journalism on Flawed Forensics in Slate Magazine " I referred to "other inaccuracies in the article" by Mark...

Flawed Journalism on Flawed Forensics in Slate Magazine

Yesterday, Slate magazine published an article by Mark Joseph Stern announcing that “Forensic Science Isn’t Science.” 1 / The writer’s obje...

Kansas Court of Appeals Rejects Post-King Challenge to DNA Collection on Arrest

This year, the Kansas Court of Appeals upheld the state's DNA-on-arrest law against a Fourth Amendment challenge. The result is not surp...

Fingerprinting Errors and a Scandal in St. Paul

Reports of crime laboratory scandals and fraud have become legion. It is scandalous to convict and imprison people on the basis of contrived...

Quarreling and Quibbling over Psychometrics in Hall v. Florida (part 3)

After explaining that Florida’s statutory cutoff of –2σ x corresponds to an IQ score of 70 (because IQ tests are normed to have a mean of 1...

Quarreling and Quibbling over Psychometrics in Hall v. Florida (part 2)

Justice Kennedy described the Florida law that prompted the trial court to reject Hall’s claim of intellectual disability as follows: Flor...