Forensic Fraud

09/04/2025

State trooper Sam Zahn's eighth identified sober victim of a false DUI arrest turns out to be a sober 71-year-old former US Attorney.

10/06/2024

SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation employee who analyzed critical evidence linked to criminal cases from Memphis and Shelby County was fired after her honesty and ethi…

09/12/2024

Roughly 50 active criminal cases involving fi****ms have been on hold since a national fi****ms database used by the Rhode Island State Crime Lab last month flagged a cartridge casing authorities believe is involved in a 2021 Pawtucket murder for being linked to another criminal case.

07/13/2024

Erlinda Ocampo Johnson said she believed in the manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin, but that withheld evidence meant the case should be dismissed.

05/11/2024

Tillamook Chief Raymond Raymond pleaded no contest to two official misconduct charges. He also filed a stress claim.

04/26/2024

This does not read like a mistake --- it reads like intentional fraud to trick the reviewer.

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North Carolina county’s District Attorney notifying impacted parties after ‘incredibly troubling’ DNA lab errors

The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s office has started the process of notifying attorneys whose clients may have been impacted by irregularities in DNA testing caused by a crime lab analyst...

[A]n email from the DA’s office about potential flaws in DNA results because of a mistake discovered in March... reads, in part:

A nonconformity with laboratory standards was identified and reported by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Crime Lab. On March 5, 2024, a senior DNA Analyst reviewing the work of another analyst discovered possible inconsistencies with the amplification positive control data generated during the DNA testing process. Further investigation revealed that during a retesting of DNA, the initial failed positive control was substituted with another positive control that was known to give the expected positive result. The casework analyst’s action was reported by the reviewing DNA Analyst and an investigation began to determine the full scope of the issue. …
The CMPD lab is working to determine which cases there were substitutions of a positive control in the work of the above-mentioned lab analyst.
MECKLENBURG COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

The State Bureau of investigation is taking the lead on this case while the District Attorney’s office is identifying potential impacted cases.

04/13/2024

This is why independent forensic scientists do not dream of becoming an employee of the State. These patterns are toxically routine and ridiculously predictable.

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D.C.’s much-maligned crime lab recently pushed out the entirety of the Science Advisory Board after its members raised a series of issues. The board, made up of a group of forensic experts, was convened by Bowser to review the Department of Forensic Sciences’ operations and help address potential problems.

In particular, the board received a complaint last July from some current DFS employees arguing that a change in evidence collection techniques would strain their resources and lead to less accurate renderings of crime scenes. The SAB then sought to work with the agency to investigate those concerns, but in return, department leaders stonewalled their inquiries, accused them of unspecified unethical behavior, and pushed them to resign, according to three people familiar with the board’s operations.

Employees at D.C.'s crime lab brought concerns to a board of experts. D.C. officials dissolved the board instead of listen.

03/18/2024

This is, without question, an exterminate the brute / save the child (eugenics) based approach to keep children in the foster care system -- and away from their biological parents.

No science, interviewing only foster parents, and copy paste assessments. With zero background in child psychology.

This reads like a war on the impoverished masking a war against non-whites -- to feed the wealthy who are eager to adopt. In her testimony, she states: "babies have “never possessed” a cultural identity, and therefore are “not losing anything,” at their age, by being adopted." If this doesn't sound racist to you, it's because you are likely white and likely don't understand what culture is.

03/01/2024

According to standards set by the FBI and the MEs office’s own policy, the author of a forensic analysis cannot also be the technical reviewer.

02/25/2024

Some judges (and religious figures) are very much like this. And get sent to the bench or pulpit because they identify more with a ra**st than they do their victims. This decisions begins a path for justice that was violated by the judge in a such a fashion that I think his finances need to be investigated.

The Illinois Courts Commission removed Adams County Judge Robert Adrian from the bench Friday after it held a three-day hearing in Chicago in November on a compliant filed against Adrian. Its decision says Adrian “engaged in multiple instances of misconduct" and “abused his position of power to ...