23.08.2017 - 10:29 [ Techdirt ]

Court Strips Immunity From Bite Mark Experts Who Put Wrong Man In Jail For 23 Years

We‘ve discussed the junk science masquerading as forensic science in criminal cases. Coming in slightly ahead of chatting with psychics is „bite mark analysis.“ According to these so-called experts, each bite mark is just as unique as a fingerprint. But if so, why have so many cases been overturned when actual science — usually DNA evidence — is examined? Bite mark analysts have no answers. Fortunately, there‘s been less and less reliance on this highly-questionable evidence over the years.