FRSC 1010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: David Milgaard, Daubert Standard, Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
26 Sep 2017
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Monday, september 18, 2017: ***none of the above is always an option for a scientist. A canadian tragedy: gaill miller: nursing assistant found murdered in an alley in saskatoon at 8:20am. Recommendation #2: you need to consider how powerful evidence is. Recommendation #7: avoid language that suggests proving. How many alternative hypotheses can you form. Who are the other players in terms of a criminal scene. Having an a1/a2 is the same as having a a2/a1. *** supreme court: daubert standard will be on exam. Forensics science oxymoron: matching is not falsifiable, fingerprint testimony is not unreliable. Juries rarely understand the expert scientific testimony presented to them. The coming paradigm shift in forensic identification science. Legal and scientific forces pushing traditional forensic identification sciences toward fundamental change: there"s method error and practitioner error. Proficiency test suggests that forensic errors are not minor.
