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He Was Convicted Based on Allegedly Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis. Louisiana Wants to Execute Him Anyway.
Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man still awaits execution based on their testimony.
www.propublica.org
Forensics: Faked junk bitemark testimony by discredited dentist may lead to first execution in LA since 2010. Governor and AG could care less. Unbelievable. 🧪
www.propublica.org/article/loui...
www.propublica.org/article/loui...
Forensics: Constitutional law. Attack on 4th Amendment. No reasonable suspicion needed for ICE to ID citizens anywhere. Civil rights disregarded. Immigration litigation considered criminal jurisdiction by USDOJ.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
January 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Forensics: Constitutional law. Attack on 4th Amendment. No reasonable suspicion needed for ICE to ID citizens anywhere. Civil rights disregarded. Immigration litigation considered criminal jurisdiction by USDOJ.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Forensics: ICe custody deaths are off the charts. 🧪
2025 (calendar year):
• At least 32 people died while in ICE custody: the highest number in more than 20 years. These deaths included medical causes, suicides, and other circumstances.
2025 (calendar year):
• At least 32 people died while in ICE custody: the highest number in more than 20 years. These deaths included medical causes, suicides, and other circumstances.
"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..."
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Forensics: ICe custody deaths are off the charts. 🧪
2025 (calendar year):
• At least 32 people died while in ICE custody: the highest number in more than 20 years. These deaths included medical causes, suicides, and other circumstances.
2025 (calendar year):
• At least 32 people died while in ICE custody: the highest number in more than 20 years. These deaths included medical causes, suicides, and other circumstances.
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COME SENATORS, CONGRESSMEN, PLEASE HEED THE CALL (Press, too)
Civility in the face of fascism is complicity
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Civility in the face of fascism is complicity
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Suspended Michigan autoworker who heckled Trump gets outpouring of donations
Tens of thousands of dollars raised for TJ Sabula after he reportedly calls Trump ‘pedophile protector’ during Ford plant tour
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:17 PM
COME SENATORS, CONGRESSMEN, PLEASE HEED THE CALL (Press, too)
Civility in the face of fascism is complicity
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Civility in the face of fascism is complicity
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Forensics: Protesters in Iran. A morgue overflowing with more body bags than answers amid Iran’s latest crackdown on dissent. 🧪
www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/middleeast/iran-kahrizak-tehran-morgue-protest-crackdown-dissent-intl-latam
www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/middleeast/iran-kahrizak-tehran-morgue-protest-crackdown-dissent-intl-latam
A morgue overflowing with more body bags than answers amid Iran’s latest crackdown on dissent | CNN
Iranians screamed in anguish and cried in confusion as they gathered beside bodies shrouded in black bags in a makeshift morgue at the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center and lying on the ground outside ...
www.cnn.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Forensics: Protesters in Iran. A morgue overflowing with more body bags than answers amid Iran’s latest crackdown on dissent. 🧪
www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/middleeast/iran-kahrizak-tehran-morgue-protest-crackdown-dissent-intl-latam
www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/middleeast/iran-kahrizak-tehran-morgue-protest-crackdown-dissent-intl-latam
Forensics: Union worker heckles Trump. Gets suspended from Ford Motor Company. Fundraiser by Sean Williams : TJ Sabula is a patriot!!
Sean Williams needs your support for TJ Sabula is a patriot!! 🧪 — Read on www.gofundme.com/f/tj-sabula-is-a-patriot
Sean Williams needs your support for TJ Sabula is a patriot!! 🧪 — Read on www.gofundme.com/f/tj-sabula-is-a-patriot
Donate to TJ Sabula is a patriot!!, organized by Sean Williams
** UPDATE **
I am working on transferring this donation project to TJ - for him to control di… Sean Williams needs your support for TJ Sabula is a patriot!!
www.gofundme.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Forensics: Union worker heckles Trump. Gets suspended from Ford Motor Company. Fundraiser by Sean Williams : TJ Sabula is a patriot!!
Sean Williams needs your support for TJ Sabula is a patriot!! 🧪 — Read on www.gofundme.com/f/tj-sabula-is-a-patriot
Sean Williams needs your support for TJ Sabula is a patriot!! 🧪 — Read on www.gofundme.com/f/tj-sabula-is-a-patriot
Forensics: Ireland. Forensic experts to be paid €4.5m as mother and baby home excavation enters second phase. 🧪
The bodies of 796 infants are believed to be buried.
www.westernpeople.ie/forensic-experts-to-be-paid-4-5m-as-mother-and-baby-home-excavation-enters-second-phase_arid-83656.html
The bodies of 796 infants are believed to be buried.
www.westernpeople.ie/forensic-experts-to-be-paid-4-5m-as-mother-and-baby-home-excavation-enters-second-phase_arid-83656.html
Forensic experts to be paid €4.5m as mother and baby home excavation enters second phase - Homepage - Western People
The bodies of 796 infants are believed to be buried on the site
www.westernpeople.ie
January 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Forensics: Ireland. Forensic experts to be paid €4.5m as mother and baby home excavation enters second phase. 🧪
The bodies of 796 infants are believed to be buried.
www.westernpeople.ie/forensic-experts-to-be-paid-4-5m-as-mother-and-baby-home-excavation-enters-second-phase_arid-83656.html
The bodies of 796 infants are believed to be buried.
www.westernpeople.ie/forensic-experts-to-be-paid-4-5m-as-mother-and-baby-home-excavation-enters-second-phase_arid-83656.html
January 12, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Ja. Teeth mark matching is junk. Even in Velveta.
January 12, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Ja. Teeth mark matching is junk. Even in Velveta.
Very dubious. Its total junk.
January 12, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Very dubious. Its total junk.
Forensics: Fromage strikes back. 🧪
www.thestar.co.uk/news/courts/...
www.thestar.co.uk/news/courts/...
Prolific burglar caught after police find bite marks in discarded block of cheese
A prolific burglar was caught after he left DNA and teeth marks in a block of cheese he gnawed on and discarded during one of his house raids.
www.thestar.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Forensics: Fromage strikes back. 🧪
www.thestar.co.uk/news/courts/...
www.thestar.co.uk/news/courts/...
Forensics: Aviation. Chaos for commercial airliners. FAA later declares passenger clothing guidelines a priority. Can’t fix stupid.
www.propublica.org/article/spac...
www.propublica.org/article/spac...
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
www.propublica.org
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Forensics: Aviation. Chaos for commercial airliners. FAA later declares passenger clothing guidelines a priority. Can’t fix stupid.
www.propublica.org/article/spac...
www.propublica.org/article/spac...
Forensics: Junk forensics. Hair. Hawaii man fights 34-year-old rape conviction based on debunked FBI tests. 🧪
www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-man-fights-34-year-old-rape-conviction-based-on-debunked-forensics/
www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-man-fights-34-year-old-rape-conviction-based-on-debunked-forensics/
Hawaii man fights 34-year-old rape conviction based on debunked forensics
A bombshell 2009 report suggested widespread errors in the FBI's crime labs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to convictions over potentially scientifically unsound evidence.
www.courthousenews.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Forensics: Junk forensics. Hair. Hawaii man fights 34-year-old rape conviction based on debunked FBI tests. 🧪
www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-man-fights-34-year-old-rape-conviction-based-on-debunked-forensics/
www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-man-fights-34-year-old-rape-conviction-based-on-debunked-forensics/
Forensics: Nine times so far. Cops Are Taught Not to Shoot Into Cars. ICE Keeps Doing It Anyway.
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people. All of them have been in cars. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/renee-good-minneapolis-shooting-ice-trump-cops-taught-not-shoot-at-cars/
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people. All of them have been in cars. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/renee-good-minneapolis-shooting-ice-trump-cops-taught-not-shoot-at-cars/
Cops are taught not to shoot into cars. ICE keeps doing it anyway.
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September. All of them have been in cars.
www.motherjones.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Forensics: Nine times so far. Cops Are Taught Not to Shoot Into Cars. ICE Keeps Doing It Anyway.
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people. All of them have been in cars. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/renee-good-minneapolis-shooting-ice-trump-cops-taught-not-shoot-at-cars/
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people. All of them have been in cars. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/renee-good-minneapolis-shooting-ice-trump-cops-taught-not-shoot-at-cars/
Forensics: Medicine. A massive study of vaccienes and autism. The top of the curve shows unvaxed have a a slight HIGHEr chance of being autistic. 🧪
www.threads.com/@drdominic.n...
www.threads.com/@drdominic.n...
Dr. Dominic Ng (@drdominic.ng) on Threads
Quite funny that one of the largest MMR-autism studies ever - 657,000 kids - found the correlation is actually negative.
The unvaccinated kids were slightly more likely to be autistic.
www.threads.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Forensics: Medicine. A massive study of vaccienes and autism. The top of the curve shows unvaxed have a a slight HIGHEr chance of being autistic. 🧪
www.threads.com/@drdominic.n...
www.threads.com/@drdominic.n...
Forensics: Capital case appeals show procedural and evidentiary mistakes by prosecutors. Executions by states doubled in 2025, with Florida accounting for largest share. 🧪
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/jan/04/executions-by-states-doubled-in-2025-with-florida/
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/jan/04/executions-by-states-doubled-in-2025-with-florida/
Executions by states doubled in 2025, with Florida accounting for largest share
Florida’s record execution spree in 2025 drove a sharp national uptick: Executions nearly doubled nationwide from 2024.
lasvegassun.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Forensics: Capital case appeals show procedural and evidentiary mistakes by prosecutors. Executions by states doubled in 2025, with Florida accounting for largest share. 🧪
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/jan/04/executions-by-states-doubled-in-2025-with-florida/
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/jan/04/executions-by-states-doubled-in-2025-with-florida/
Forensics: Swiss fire disaster. Creating certainty: This is how the experts identify the fire victims. 113 of 119 have been ID’d. Rapid DNA testing major method. 🧪
www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/this-is-how-the-experts-are-proceeding-with-the-identification-of-the-fire-victims-3034037.html
www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/this-is-how-the-experts-are-proceeding-with-the-identification-of-the-fire-victims-3034037.html
This is how the experts are proceeding with the identification of the fire victims
Following the disaster in Crans-Montana VS, the difficult task of identifying the injured and deceased victims is underway. Swiss forensic experts are relying on the tried and tested DVI method. DNA, ...
www.bluewin.ch
January 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Forensics: Swiss fire disaster. Creating certainty: This is how the experts identify the fire victims. 113 of 119 have been ID’d. Rapid DNA testing major method. 🧪
www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/this-is-how-the-experts-are-proceeding-with-the-identification-of-the-fire-victims-3034037.html
www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/this-is-how-the-experts-are-proceeding-with-the-identification-of-the-fire-victims-3034037.html
Forensics: Centuries old. No studies exist for support. Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be dangerous. 🧪
An exam meant to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive is of 'questionable value' — Read on www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/119243
An exam meant to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive is of 'questionable value' — Read on www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/119243
Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous
An exam meant to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive is of 'questionable value'
www.medpagetoday.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Forensics: Centuries old. No studies exist for support. Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be dangerous. 🧪
An exam meant to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive is of 'questionable value' — Read on www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/119243
An exam meant to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive is of 'questionable value' — Read on www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/119243
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January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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CSIDDS (FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS) is a blog-style website primarily focused on forensic science, legal issues, and criminal justice topics. The site is authored by Dr. Mike Bowers, who presents commentary and links to news and developments in related these fields. 🧪
CSIDDS (FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS) is a blog-style website primarily focused on forensic science, legal issues, and criminal justice topics. The site is authored by Dr. Mike Bowers, who presents commentary and links to news and developments in related these fields. 🧪
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CSIDDS (FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS) is a blog-style website primarily focused on forensic science, legal issues, and criminal justice topics. The site is authored by Dr. Mike Bowers, who presents commentary and links to news and developments in related these fields. 🧪
CSIDDS (FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS) is a blog-style website primarily focused on forensic science, legal issues, and criminal justice topics. The site is authored by Dr. Mike Bowers, who presents commentary and links to news and developments in related these fields. 🧪
A range of estimates.
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A range of estimates.
Forensics: Fraud. 40 years on the job. Former CBI forensic scientist accused of mishandling evidence to be arraigned. 🧪
www.denver7.com/news/crime/former-cbi-forensic-scientist-accused-of-alleged-mishandling-of-dna-evidence-set-to-be-arraigned-tuesday
www.denver7.com/news/crime/former-cbi-forensic-scientist-accused-of-alleged-mishandling-of-dna-evidence-set-to-be-arraigned-tuesday
Former CBI forensic scientist accused of alleged mishandling of DNA evidence set to be arraigned Tuesday
Woods spent nearly 30 years with CBI and she’s facing more than 100 felony charges tied to the alleged mishandling of DNA evidence, potentially impacting more than 1,000 cases.
www.denver7.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Forensics: Fraud. 40 years on the job. Former CBI forensic scientist accused of mishandling evidence to be arraigned. 🧪
www.denver7.com/news/crime/former-cbi-forensic-scientist-accused-of-alleged-mishandling-of-dna-evidence-set-to-be-arraigned-tuesday
www.denver7.com/news/crime/former-cbi-forensic-scientist-accused-of-alleged-mishandling-of-dna-evidence-set-to-be-arraigned-tuesday
Forensics: Experts go out on the limb and wobble. Weird Science: The strangest expert witnesses of 2025. 🧪
Dog bites, drip stains, and flaming pants—Court TV spotlights the weirdest expert witness moments of 2025. www.courttv.com/news/weird-science-the-strangest-expert-witnesses-of-2025/
Dog bites, drip stains, and flaming pants—Court TV spotlights the weirdest expert witness moments of 2025. www.courttv.com/news/weird-science-the-strangest-expert-witnesses-of-2025/
Weird Science: The strangest expert witnesses of 2025
Dog bites, drip stains, and flaming pants—Court TV spotlights the weirdest expert witness moments of 2025.
www.courttv.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Forensics: Experts go out on the limb and wobble. Weird Science: The strangest expert witnesses of 2025. 🧪
Dog bites, drip stains, and flaming pants—Court TV spotlights the weirdest expert witness moments of 2025. www.courttv.com/news/weird-science-the-strangest-expert-witnesses-of-2025/
Dog bites, drip stains, and flaming pants—Court TV spotlights the weirdest expert witness moments of 2025. www.courttv.com/news/weird-science-the-strangest-expert-witnesses-of-2025/
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Forensics: Law. A College Athlete Shot Seconds After Disarming a Gunman Secures $2M Settlement as the Cop’s Racist Texts Surface. Cop fired. 🧪
atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/27/college-athlete-shot-seconds-after-disarming-a-gunman-secures-settlement-as-the-cops-racist-texts-surface/
atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/27/college-athlete-shot-seconds-after-disarming-a-gunman-secures-settlement-as-the-cops-racist-texts-surface/
‘I Don’t Care!’: College Athlete Shot Seconds After Disarming a Gunman Secures Settlement as the Cop’s Racist Texts Surface and the Shooting Suddenly Looks Different
"Heroic college athlete shot seconds after disarming gunman secures $8M settlement as racist cop's texts surface. The shocking truth reve...
atlantablackstar.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Forensics: Law. A College Athlete Shot Seconds After Disarming a Gunman Secures $2M Settlement as the Cop’s Racist Texts Surface. Cop fired. 🧪
atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/27/college-athlete-shot-seconds-after-disarming-a-gunman-secures-settlement-as-the-cops-racist-texts-surface/
atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/27/college-athlete-shot-seconds-after-disarming-a-gunman-secures-settlement-as-the-cops-racist-texts-surface/