by Bert | Aug 21, 2019 | Kansas
After reading all 188 pages of Judge Julie Robinson’s opinion addressing how prosecutors have dealt with the multi-year attorney-client phone/visit-recording scandal in Kansas, it is astonishing that the US Attorney’s Office in Kansas continues to employ so many of...
by Bert | May 21, 2019 | California
It feels like the Orange County Snitch Scandal has been going on for years without real accountability. The only concrete actions the public has seen anybody with a position of authority take against the prosecutors were Judge Goethals’s groundbreaking decisions to...
by Bert | Jan 29, 2018 | Research
Two highly-respected legal scholars, Rachel Barkow at NYU Law and Mark Osler at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, recently wrote an excellent article titled “Designed to Fail: The President’s Deference to the Department of Justice in Advancing Criminal...
by Bert | Apr 14, 2017 | National
In an unsurprising development, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has declared a winner in the battle between science—that is, real science—and forensic science. Embracing forensic science, as he always has, Sessions has allowed a crucial body, the National Commission on...
by Bert | Sep 21, 2016 | National
This week, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (“PCAST”) released a system-shaking report that explains how several fields of forensic analysis—including bite-mark analysis, hair comparisons, and shoeprint analysis—lack adequate scientific...
