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"US judge urges skepticism on forensic evidence; Gertner says she'll expect defense lawyers to challenge its validity"

"US judge urges skepticism on forensic evidence; Gertner says she'll expect defense lawyers to challenge its validity": Today in The Boston Globe, Jonathan Saltzman has an article that begins, "'CSI' may make for gripping television, but US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner says forensic evidence isn't everything it's cracked up to be. In a move that some legal scholars said may be the first by a federal judge, Gertner has ordered defense lawyers and prosecutors not to assume that evidence routinely accepted in the courts for decades is reliable. Defense lawyers, she wrote, should vigorously challenge fingerprints, bullet identification, handwriting, and other trace evidence, and prosecutors should be prepared to show it is valid."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).