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Barack Obama

"Lincoln Sells Out Slaves"
by: Rob Kailey - Sep 13
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I Told You He Was No Good!
by: Rob Kailey - Jun 22

If You Haven't Seen This
by: Rob Kailey - Apr 28
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Impeach the President?
by: Rob Kailey - Mar 16
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It's the system, stupid!
by: Jay Stevens - Oct 25
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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.

forensics

The myth of fingerprinting

by: Jay Stevens

Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 12:29:13 PM MST

In Augut's Popular Mechanics, Brad Reagan tackles the "shaky science behind forensics," the perfect companion piece to the National Academy of Sciences report that found most of criminal forensics - fingerprinting, ballistics, handwriting analysis - have little or no scientific basis.

Read it. Recall that the conservative-dominated SCOTUS decided that convicts have no right to test DNA from their police case files. Remember Arnold Melnikoff and what his "testimony" did for the reputation of the Montana Crime Lab. And realize that the head of the Montana Crime Lab has neither experience in forensics nor a science background.

So...what is the Montana Crime Lab doing to ensure that Montana Crime Lab forensics are science-based?

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