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The Case of Junk Science - Gunshot Residue Evidence
📻 Episode #400
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 23, 2023
About This Episode
Of all the many faulty forensic sciences, Gunshot Residue certainly has some truly startling and scary issues that began almost a century ago.
The Case
Of all the many faulty forensic sciences, Gunshot Residue certainly has some truly startling and scary issues that began almost a century ago.
Josh Dubin explores Gunshot Residue Evidence with Joanna Sanchez, Managing Counsel from the Wrongful Conviction Project at the Office of the Ohio Public Defender.
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:03:55“Speaker 2: a nail in the tread of the tire. You pull Speaker 2: it out, plug the hole, and let the glue set. Speaker 2: After pumping up the tire and giving it a few Speaker 2: good pushes, Alan grabs his bike and begins to walk Speaker 2: it back down the street toward his grandmother's house. Once”
00:17:25“Speaker 3: and friends. Still, okay, So. Speaker 2: I want to get into the details of the crime Speaker 2: a little bit. So police officers arrive on Allen Street Speaker 2: the night when he had been fixing his moped and Speaker 2: this green car had crashed into the side of a”
00:28:39“Speaker 3: what can be said about gunshot rescue evidence, but they're Speaker 3: still allowing it in. And I think at some point Speaker 3: we hit a breaking point where the risk of prejudice Speaker 3: for this evidence outweighs the benefit of it because it Speaker 3: is so unreliable in so many different aspects. That are”
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