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The Case of Junk Science - Tool Mark Analysis
📻 Episode #402
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 30, 2023
About This Episode
The notion that tools leave a unique mark on a surface is commonly presented to unsuspecting juries. But, it turns out that it's not necessarily the case at all.
The Case
The notion that tools leave a unique mark on a surface is commonly presented to unsuspecting juries. But, it turns out that it's not necessarily the case at all.
Josh Dubin talks about Tool Mark Analysis with Tim Requarth, a freelance journalist who often writes about the intersection between science and criminal justice and a lecturer in science and writing at New York University.
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science. Learn more and get involved.
“Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science” By Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-crisis-of-american-forensics/https://cifsjustice.org/donate/https://opd.ohio.gov/law-library/innocence/wrongful-conviction-projectwww.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science
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00:04:56“Speaker 2: will you help me. You take all of this in Speaker 2: and think to I really want to be involved defending Speaker 2: someone who might have done something so horrific. But then again, Speaker 2: what if he's actually innocent. Everyone deserves an opportunity to Speaker 2: defend themselves. Ultimately, you agree to take on his case.”
00:19:09“Speaker 2: this for a moment. In cases where people were later Speaker 2: proven to be innocent based on DNA, forty five percent Speaker 2: of those wrongful convictions are based on some misapplication of Speaker 2: forensic science. Speaker 4: Imagine if this were the FDA, right Imagine if a”
00:30:32“Speaker 4: As convincing as it sounds, they're only telling you a Speaker 4: partial picture. And yet the courts have been unable to Speaker 4: bar them from being used. If you have a justice Speaker 4: system where that ends justifies the means, right, it's not Speaker 4: going to function fairly. And so we should all be”
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