ix.1: Flawed Experts,
Faulty Evidence
“In 1927…
‘murderous passion
and lust.’”
Ramey, Jessie “The
Bloody Blonde and the
Marble Woman: Gender and
Power in the Case of Ruth
Snyder.” Journal
of Social History,
37, Spring 2004.
“In fact, according
to a recent study of sixty-two
cases of DNA exonerations,
one-third involved “tainted
or fraudulent science.’”
Scheck, Barry, et al.
Actual Innocence:
Five Days to Execution
and Other Dispatches from
the Wrongly Convicted.
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
“…played
a critical part in implicating
twenty-six of the first
seventy-four exonerees
cleared by DNA tests.”
Scheck, Barry, et al.
Actual Innocence:
Five Days to Execution
and Other Dispatches from
the Wrongly Convicted.
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
“‘Study after
study shows that juries
put a great deal of faith
in the testimony of expert
witnesses,’ …”
Berry,
Sheila M. “When
Experts Lie.” Truth
in Justice, 2004.
“… ‘mystic
infallibility’…”
United States v. Addison,
98 F. 2nd 741 at 744 (1974).
“Daubert v.
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals
obligated judges to act
as gatekeepers to prevent
unsound scientific practices
from being used at trial…”
Daubert v. Merrell
Dow Pharmaceuticals,
509 U.S. 579 (1993).
“But a detailed
examination of 138…
such occurrences are not
rare.”
Neufeld, Peter J. “The
(Near) Irrelevance of
Daubertto Criminal Justice
and Some Suggestions for
Reform.” American
Journal of Public Health,
2005.
“…became
something of a forensics
‘star’…”
Berry,
Sheila M. “When
Experts Lie.” Truth
in Justice, 2004.
“ ‘There
were two different problems
in the crime lab…
deadly combination’”
Liptak,
Adam. “Worst Crime
Lab in the Country: Or
is Houston Typical?”
The New York Times,
March 2003.
“ ‘Standards
are often lax or nonexistent…
own experts.””
Liptak,
Adam. “Worst Crime
Lab in the Country: Or
is Houston Typical?”
The New York Times,
March 2003.
ix.2: No One
Else to Turn To
“Roughly 70 percent
of U.S. prisons offer
some form of religious
counseling, either via
chaplains or outside ministries.”
Dammer, Harry R. Religion
in Prison. American
Correctional Association,
August 2000.
“An evangelical
Christian group…
participated in religious
activity.”
Johnson, Byron R. with
Larson, David B. “The
InnerChange Freedom Initiative:
A Preliminary Evaluation
of a Faith-Based Prison
Program.” University
of Pennsylvania, Center
for Research on Religion
and Urban Civil Society,
2003.
“… ‘It’s
not singing ‘Amazing
Grace’… for
those kinds of programs.’”
CBS
News. “Rehabilitation
Through Religion.”
CBS Evening News,
June 2005.
