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Background materials on shoddy forensics

Via the Innocence Blog:The National Academy of Sciences Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community posted a wealth of forensic research and presentations on its website this week ? including the complete submissions from dozens of presenters at its five public meetings. I was particularly interested to see this presentation (pdf) by Michael Risinger, a law professor at Seton Hall University, calling for blind administration and testing for error rates in all forensic disciplines. See especially the chart on page 2 of the presentation listing error rates for common forensic techniques.Related Grits posts:NAS Report: Many forensic disciplines prone to errorJustice system commonly relies on shoddy forensic scienceUSDOJ should embrace, not fight science-based forensicscontinue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).