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In the summer of 2021, the body of 29-year-old Damien Cameron was delivered to the crime lab in Jackson, Mississippi. Cameron, a Black man, had died after a struggle with police. His face was swollen and bloodied, and there was bleeding in his neck. Witnesses described seeing two deputies kneeling on Cameron for more than 10 minutes. Yet Staci Turner, the state’s medical examiner, ruled Cameron’s manner of death to be “undetermined.” That decision effectively headed o...

Juries are a long-standing but much-debated element of the UK criminal justice system

Excluding experts requires realistic concern they are unable to fulfill do their duty to the court

Finding out what goes on behind jury decisions and the biases that influence them is hugely important if the criminal justice system is to work properly.

He told the court: “It’s my opinion that officers did a really good job obtaining as much information as possible and that all information was passed on to the tactical firearms commander. “In particular, PC Bishop’s efforts to allay her fears and gather information were all a very good piece of work by him.” He added that using non-lethal force, such as a taser or baton gun, would have risked “not neutralising the threat” officers believed Mr Cottier posed to the public. Dr Itiel...

Hispanic  or   Latino  voters, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — Adams, Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Walla Walla and Yakima counties. According to a   consent decree  in a lawsuit brought under the federal   Voting Rights Act  in Yakima County, the Washington Secretary of State matches Yakima voter last names to a “Spanish surname” list provided by the U.S. Justice Department in 2004. InvestigateWest also used this list to analyze signature rejections. Latinos make...

Home » Watchdog » Can elections procedure be altered to make sure all voters are treated equally? Officials seek solutions to possible bias in examining voter signatures Washington state voters with Latino surnames are much more likely to have their signatures challenged and ballots thrown out than other voters, according to an InvestigateWest analysis of eight counties with the highest share of Latino population. But given the uncertainties around actual causes to this disparity, solutions r...

. Those shell casings came from the gun found in the defendants’ car. That was, in paraphrase, the testimony of a forensic expert in a case that resulted in the conviction of two young men in Brooklyn in 2009. We know about that case because one of us (David) was on the jury. The expert gave the impression that the possibility of a mismatch was infinitesimally small. The defense didn’t even bother to argue that point. And there wasn’t a single question asked about the forensic testimony d...