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When forensics “experts” go bad: Mississippi medical examiner Dr. Steven Hayne and ?forensic odentologist? Dr. Michael West

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Radley Balko has repeatedly examined Mississippi medical examiner Dr. Steven Hayne and ?forensic odentologist? Dr. Michael West, never favorably.  The pair’s work resulted in numerous wrongful convictions.  Now another potential name to add to that list, Jimmie Christian Duncan. One of the first cases Hayne and West worked on in Louisiana was that of Jimmie Christian Duncan. Duncan was initially charged with negligent homicide after his girlfriend?s child drowned in a bathtub while in his care. Hayne claimed in his autopsy to have found evidence of sexual abuse and bruises he said indicated drowning. He then called in West, who once again managed to find bite marks no one else had noticed. Because of Hayne and West, the charges against Duncan were elevated to first-degree murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).