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Junk Science Routinely Used By Prosecutors, Congressional Study Finds

Written on October 21, 2009 by Howard Weiner in Daubert, Drug Defense, Frye, Junk Science, Recent Developments in the Law

A  Report issued by that National Academies of Science found that evidence without proper scientific basis – also known as junk science — is routinely admitted in courts across the country in criminal prosecutions.  With the exception of nuclear DNA analysis, the report found that the evidence to support the reliability of many techniques is [...]

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