actually....that's not strong enough. What's particularly appalling here is that this isn't one or two isolated unfortunate injustices. It's systemic indifference to actual justice. Institutionalized apathy, eating people alive. For *decades.*
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > amazing, isn't it. Totally arbitrary incarceration for twelve years, and > people are actually trying to defend it because no laws were broken. > Supposedly. How could that possibly not break a law? I mean...isn't his > exactly what they were talking about in 1215? > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:30 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Jesus, it gets worse and worse, and of course the governments lawyers take >> no responsibility in informing the defendants. >> >> Christ. >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice >> > Dept.By Spencer S. >> > Hsu< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/spencer-s-hsu/2011/03/02/ABJ7xmP_page.html> >> > , Monday, April 16, 6:54 PM >> > >> > Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic >> > work< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/investigating-flaws-in-forensics/2012/04/16/gIQAMSDSMT_gallery.html >> > > >> > might >> > have led to the >> > convictions< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/fbi-crime-lab-case-reviews >> > > >> > of >> > potentially innocent people, but prosecutors failed to notify >> defendants or >> > their attorneys even in many cases they knew were troubled. >> > >> > Officials started reviewing the cases in the >> > 1990s< >> > >> http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/F%20Disk/FBI/FBI%20Whitehurst%20Frederick/Item%2007.pdf >> > > >> > after >> > reports that sloppy work by examiners at the FBI lab was producing >> > unreliable forensic >> > evidence< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods >> > > >> > in >> > court trials. Instead of releasing those findings, they made them >> available >> > only to the prosecutors in the affected cases, according to documents >> and >> > interviews with dozens of officials. >> > >> > 98< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/convicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept/2012/04/16/gIQAWTcgMT_allComments.html#comments >> > > >> > >> > Comments< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/convicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept/2012/04/16/gIQAWTcgMT_allComments.html#comments >> > > >> > >> > - Weigh In< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/convicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept/2012/04/16/gIQAWTcgMT_story.html?wpisrc=al_national&sub=AR#weighIn >> > > >> > - Corrections?< >> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/interactivity/corrections/> >> > >> > Personal Post< >> > >> http://personalpost.washingtonpost.com/c?add_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Flocal%2Fcrime%2Fconvicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept%2F2012%2F04%2F16%2FgIQAWTcgMT_story.html >> > > >> > >> > Gallery >> > < >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/investigating-flaws-in-forensics/2012/04/16/gIQAMSDSMT_gallery.html >> > >< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/investigating-flaws-in-forensics/2012/04/16/gIQAMSDSMT_gallery.html >> > > >> > >> > A Washington Post investigation reveals that officials have known for >> > decades that flaws in forensic techniques have led to the convictions of >> > innocent people, raising the question: How many more are >> > there?< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/investigating-flaws-in-forensics/2012/04/16/gIQAMSDSMT_gallery.html >> > > >> > >> > How accurate is forensic >> > analysis?< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/ >> > > >> > >> > Learn more about the reliability of each type of forensic analysis. >> > DNA< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/?tab=0 >> > > >> > Fingerprint< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/?tab=1 >> > > >> > Handwriting< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/?tab=2 >> > > >> > Polygraph< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/?tab=3 >> > > >> > Firearm evidence< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/?tab=4 >> > > >> > Hair and >> > fiber< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/?tab=5 >> > > >> > Pattern and impression< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/?tab=6 >> > > >> > Bullet lead composition< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/forensic-analysis-methods/?tab=7 >> > > >> > >> > Independent scientists critique suspect forensic >> > work< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/fbi-crime-lab-case-reviews/ >> > > >> > >> > Select a name below to see case reviews >> > >> > - Benjamin Boyle< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/fbi-crime-lab-case-reviews/documents/?d=284108-r0136 >> > > >> > - Donald Gates< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/fbi-crime-lab-case-reviews/documents/?d=284039-r0030 >> > > >> > - John Huffington< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/fbi-crime-lab-case-reviews/documents/?d=284089-r0104 >> > > >> > - Newton Labert< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/fbi-crime-lab-case-reviews/documents/?d=284028-r0016 >> > > >> > - Full list of 137 cases identified by the >> > Post< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/fbi-crime-lab-case-reviews/ >> > > >> > >> > *Convictions linked to suspect forensics* >> > >> > Interactive database of >> > defendants< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/fbi-crime-lab-case-reviews/ >> > > >> > >> > In addition, the Justice Department reviewed only a limited number of >> cases >> > and focused on the work of one scientist at the FBI lab, despite >> warnings >> > that problems were far more widespread and could affect potentially >> > thousands of cases in federal, state and local courts. >> > >> > As a result, hundreds of defendants nationwide remain in prison or on >> > parole for crimes that might merit exoneration, a retrial or a >> retesting of >> > evidence using DNA because FBI hair and fiber experts may have >> > misidentified them as suspects. >> > >> > In one Texas case, Benjamin Herbert Boyle was executed in 1997, more >> than a >> > year after the Justice Department began its review. Boyle would not have >> > been eligible for the death penalty without the FBIs flawed work, >> > according to a prosecutors memo. >> > >> > The case of a Maryland man serving a life sentence for a 1981 double >> > killing is another in which federal and local law enforcement officials >> > knew of forensic problems but never told the defendant. Attorneys for >> the >> > man, John Norman Huffington, say they learned of potentially exculpatory >> > Justice Department findings from The Washington Post. They are seeking a >> > new trial. >> > >> > Justice Department officials said that they met their legal and >> > constitutional obligations when they learned of specific errors, that >> they >> > alerted prosecutors and were not required to inform defendants directly. >> > >> > The review was performed by a task force created during an inspector >> > generals investigation of >> > misconduct<http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9704a/> at >> > the FBI crime lab in the 1990s. The inquiry took nine years, ending in >> > 2004, records show, but the findings were never made public. >> > >> > In the discipline of hair and fiber analysis, only the work of FBI >> Special >> > Agent Michael P. Malone was questioned. Even though Justice Department >> and >> > FBI officials knew that the discipline had weaknesses and that the lab >> > lacked protocols and learned that examiners matches were often >> wrong >> > they kept their reviews limited to Malone. >> > >> > But two cases in D.C. Superior Court show the inadequacy of the >> > governments response. >> > >> > Santae A. Tribble< >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/2012/04/16/gIQAbndgMT_story.html >> > >, >> > now 51, was convicted of killing a taxi driver in 1978, and Kirk L. >> Odom, >> > now 49, was convicted of a sexual assault in 1981. >> > >> > Key evidence at each of their trials came from separate FBI experts >> not >> > Malone who swore that their scientific analysis proved with near >> > certainty that Tribbles and Odoms hair was at the respective crime >> > scenes. >> > >> > But DNA testing this year on the hair and on other old evidence >> virtually >> > eliminates Tribble as a suspect and completely clears Odom. Both men >> have >> > completed their sentences and are on lifelong parole. They are now >> seeking >> > exoneration in the courts in the hopes of getting on with their lives. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/convicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept/2012/04/16/gIQAWTcgMT_story.html?wpisrc=al_nati >> > >> > >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349924 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
