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Mike 03

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2. Maybe it's time to take a hard look at whether forensic odontology is an actual

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 02:49 PM

Sep 2020

science. It has helped to put away some bad dudes (Ted Bundy), but it is also responsible for a large number of miscarriages of justice. Maybe it should be more like polygraph evidence--a useful aid, inadmissible in court. I've even seen cases where insect activity, or a belt buckle impression, was mistaken for human a bite mark.

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Florida man cleared of rape and murder convictions after 37 years in prison [View all] mysteryowl Sep 2020 OP

I had a friend long ago who knew a man who'd been wrongly convicted. CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2020 #1

Maybe it's time to take a hard look at whether forensic odontology is an actual Mike 03 Sep 2020 #2

WTF? Why did it take 35 years to get DNA evidence straightened out. You can go to Ancestry.com BComplex Sep 2020 #3

Here's an original newspaper clipping from the case. C Moon Sep 2020 #4

And the actual killer has probably gone free. n/t SpankMe Sep 2020 #5

Serial killer, from the news reports at the time mysteryowl Sep 2020 #7

Glad his Mom and sister are still alive. Hope he has a meaningful life gong forward. Fla Dem Sep 2020 #6

"Bite mark evidence" is phony. This is not the first case overturned that relied on it. Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #8

To be fair angrychair Sep 2020 #12

"Today, it has finally succeeded." ????!!!!??? forgotmylogin Sep 2020 #9

The system is still failing him. How do they ever make him whole? 37 years. marble falls Sep 2020 #10

He could use a Go-Fund-Me mysteryowl Sep 2020 #11

How many have been wrongfully executed? They can't be un-executed. NurseJackie Sep 2020 #13

There is no compensation that can address what has happened to this man's life. n/t. NNadir Sep 2020 #14

In such cases DFW Sep 2020 #15