Monday, October 26, 2020

Lydell Grant: Texas: Perplexing case is subject of blistering Texas Monthly article by stellar journalist Michael Hall, headed: "It's the most outrageous thing I've ever seen. It makes no sense."

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NOTICE: Check out the  new (weekly)  post on my  'Selfless Warriors Blog' released earlier today today at the link below: " Glo...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Jason Lively: West Virginia: (Part Three): Junk arson 'science.'...Scholars expose a dangerous paradox in a highly readable academic article nicely headed: "Evidence on Fire."..."This Article contrasts the courts’ ongoing lax admissibility of unreliable fire-science evidence in criminal cases with their strict exclusion of the same flimsy evidence in civil cases, notwithstanding that both criminal and civil courts are required to operate under the same exclusionary rules for expert evidence."

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Fire science, as it became known along its “progression from magic to science,” is one of several forensic discipl...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Jason Lively: Virginia: (Part 2): Junk (outdated) arson 'science.' A well crafted 'heading' from the Washington Post - especially the last four words..."A flawed investigation left Jason Lively behind bars for a fire he did not set. He is not alone."

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "This excellent Washington Post story by  reporter Rachel Chason is a reminder that over the decades many innocen...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Jason Lively: West Virginia; Junk arson 'science' case. (Part One): The Charleston Gazette Mall (Reporter Rick Steelhammer) got it right with its heading): "McDowell man freed after 14 years in prison for a crime that was not committed."...

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QUOTE OF THE DAY: " The Court finds that, had the jury in the defendant’s trial been presented with this substantial and competent scie...