Quarreling and Quibbling over Psychometrics in Hall v. Florida (part 1)

In Hall v. Florida , 134 S.Ct. 1986 (2014), the Supreme Court struck down Florida’s practice of using an IQ score of 70 points or less as a ...

Latent Fingerprints and the Uniqueness Hypothesis

It has been argued many times that assertions of the uniqueness of all fingerprints are insufficient to warrant claims that a latent print m...

Building a Decoder for the CVE-2014-0502 Shellcode

Yesterday on the Volatility Labs blog I published a post on analyzing some interesting shellcode from a recent attack campaign and 0day expl...

What Is Wrong with People v. Lowe? More on DNA-on-Arrest Laws After Maryland v. King

Less than 24 hours before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion that avoided addressing the constitutionality of...

The Ninth Circuit's Minimal Opinion in Haskell v. Harris

Two days ago, eleven judges of the Ninth Circuit issued a long awaited opinion in Haskell v. Harris . 1 / The en banc court ruled against th...

MDNA

According to Wikipedia, " MDNA may refer to -Mitochondrial DNA (mDNA or mtDNA), the DNA located in organelles called mitochondria - M...

A "Ridiculous" Fourth Amendment Argument in the Grim Sleeper Case?

On January 7, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy dismissed as "specious and ridiculous" one argument from the alleg...