Many forensic scientists in real life and on TV crime dramas use unreliable methods that end up convicting innocent people, according to author Chris Fabricant.
Nonfiction Book Review: Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System by M. Chris Fabricant. Akashic, $28.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-63614-030-8 publishersweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publishersweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A British appellate court opened the door Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States by overturning a lower court ruling that found the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system.
resources, so what zoe said was right, they got the low hanging fruit, which are the people who just went in, and there are, you know, literally wrongfully parading charges. then there are the people, look, who are getting obstruction of a proceeding, the proceeding being the certification process, and then there s sort of an intermediate category about people who assaulted police officers and actually had weapons, but, i mean, i understand the frustration, this is sort of more than an ordinary, you know, demonstration gone bad. but ultimately the prosecutors had to pick their cases and there s really nothing a judge can do. it s a good point also about the fact that so much of the way the system, the machinery of american criminal justice system, which is one of the largest in the world and puts more people in prison than basically anywhere else which is constantly this sort of assembly line with lucy and the chocolates, that s the way the whole thing worked.