COMMENTARY: "Dueling experts in the David Camm case," by Jim Fisher, published on October 30, 2013. Jim Fisher is the author of : "Forensics under fire: Are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? (Rutgers, 2008); The post appears on his "Jim Fisher True Crime Blog);
GIST: " On Thursday, October 24, 2013, after thirty-one days of testimony, the jury of eight women and four men found David Camm not
guilty. The defendant's thirteen-year criminal justice ordeal,
involving three murder trials, had finally come to an end. The state of
Indiana had spent millions of dollars in a failed attempt to acquire a
murder conviction in an obviously flawed case. Sometimes prosecutors just don't know when to quit. Moreover, the
David Camm case, featuring dueling experts in blood spatter
interpretation, is an embarrassment to forensic science. Blood spatter
analysis, while perhaps an investigative tool, is not a science and
shouldn't be presented as such in a court of law."
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