People are no better than chance at identifying when someone else is recounting a false or real memory of a crime.
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Environmental scientist Jacqui Aitkenhead-Peterson assists law enforcement by matching soil from crime scenes and suspects and determining evidence of human decomposition products. This year, she added someone special to her team.
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Most scientists and doctors in the coronavirus crisis are working to save the living. Those in the field of forensic pathology, however, focus on the dead.
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The appellate court has now ruled that the prosecution's "topographic distribution" theory of old semen stains "shall not be admissible" at the new trial.
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The Northwestern Prison Education Program has received a $1 million grant to support the expansion of educational opportunities for incarcerated people.
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Forensic scientists have validated a method to determine the THC quantity of a plant or liquid sample, allowing them to differentiate between hemp and marijuana.
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On Wednesday, Sheila Denton was released from a Georgia prison after 15 years of wrongful imprisonment based on bite mark evidence.
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DNA Labs International is announcing the introduction of new, advanced testing technologies, available later this year, which will yield more efficient genetic results with more targeted testing.
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Utica College was awarded a grant for more than $214,000 from the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance to develop an educational opportunities program in cybersecurity.
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A new survey of people who inject illicit drugs in the state of Washington yields positive and important findings for policy makers as the world struggles to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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