{"id":128665,"date":"2015-11-10T05:18:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/forensic-fakery-biased-science-false-convictions-and-yeah-some-folk-who-died.html"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:30:50","slug":"forensic-fakery-biased-science-false-convictions-and-yeah-some-folk-who-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/forensic-fakery-biased-science-false-convictions-and-yeah-some-folk-who-died.html","title":{"rendered":"Forensic fakery, biased science, false convictions, and, yeah, some folk who died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But, hey, we gotta have the death penalty to show people we are tough on crime![1]<\/p>\n<p>[1] Except the crime of incenting forensic labs to fabricate convicting evidence, misleading testimony, and sloppy conclusions that result in people getting the death penalty for crimes they may not have committed. But who cares about that, since all those people are crooks, right? I mean, they got convicted and everything!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2015\/04\/fbi_s_flawed_forensics_expert_testimony_hair_analysis_bite_marks_fingerprints.single.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/wabE6fgNff9UdmzSIuZ6dx9VM8vcHocyLo6JJBlMJIY2OBkl43hrJwgcvpNd4-X-OLzNMlhDkmP6pXjpRcLkd8LzAQTxAAgFYGfxQSLBib7ra0fPSVqPoHkax-ePsnySBRC8F2A_Yo8BtTX-IL5iCKuMq8r82F925Y1Oa_0vT8duG1q7aeLKuVT6Gu45WIN0vhDeitWrJ2dwyxBxEkVr1rkM6j3FxBGEsFsWwVeN1SMeIhjg0Eo=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2015\/04\/fbi_s_flawed_forensics_expert_testimony_hair_analysis_bite_marks_fingerprints.single.html'>The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFor more stories like this, like Slate on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. The Washington Post published a story so horrifying this weekend that it would\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/2PnAVEcPr3e'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, hey, we gotta have the death penalty to show people we are tough on crime![1] [1] Except the crime of incenting forensic labs to fabricate convicting evidence, misleading testimony, and sloppy conclusions that result in people getting the death penalty for crimes they may not have committed. But who cares about that, since all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/forensic-fakery-biased-science-false-convictions-and-yeah-some-folk-who-died.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forensic fakery, biased science, false convictions, and, yeah, some folk who died&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22780,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/albert-mohler-is-a-dolt-death-is-life-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":128665,"position":0},"title":"Albert Mohler is a Dolt (Death is Life Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Sep-11 12:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Albert Mohler is the President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a board member of Focus on the Family, and a major figure in Baptist \/ Evangelical \/ Fundamentalist theology. \u00a0Which is why this sort of thing so seriously chaps my hide. \u00a0Because people read this, and say, \"Hey, here's the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime &amp; 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