Tagged: reliability of DNA evidence

REMINDER: PCJI Presents Making A Murderer Discussion

making a murdererPlease join the Pace Criminal Justice Institute (PCJI) on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 6:00-9:00 PM in the Pace Law School Moot Court Room for an eventLegal, Ethical and Practical Issues: A Panel Discussion on the Netflix Documentary Series ‘Making A Murderer’. Join us as panelists including Professors Carol BarryDavid DorfmanLissa GriffinJill Gross, and alumnus Chris McNerney (’06), Chief of Greenburgh Police, discuss the legal and ethical issues raised by this documentary. Attendees can earn up to 3.5 CLE credits (1.5 ethics and 2.0 professional practice).

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REMINDER: PCJI Presents Making A Murderer Discussion

making a murdererPlease join the Pace Criminal Justice Institute (PCJI) on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 6:00-9:00 PM in the Pace Law School Moot Court Room for an eventLegal, Ethical and Practical Issues: A Panel Discussion on the Netflix Documentary Series ‘Making A Murderer’. Join us as panelists including Professors Carol BarryDavid Dorfman, Lissa Griffin, Jill Gross, and alumnus Chris McNerney (’06), Chief of Greenburgh Police, discuss the legal and ethical issues raised by this documentary. Attendees can earn up to 3.5 CLE credits (1.5 ethics and 2.0 professional practice).

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PCJI Presents Making A Murderer Discussion

MaMPlease join the Pace Criminal Justice Institute on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 6:00-9:00 PM in the Pace Law School Moot Court Room for an event: Legal, Ethical and Practical Issues: A Panel Discussion on the Netflix Documentary Series ‘Making A Murderer’. Join us as panelists including Professors Carol Barry, David Dorfman, and Lissa Griffin, and alumnus Chris McNerney (’06), Chief of Greenburgh Police, discuss the legal and ethical issues raised by this documentary. Attendees can earn up to 3.5 CLE credits (1.5 ethics and 2.0 professional practice).

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Massive DNA Evidence Review in Texas

The Houston Chronicle reports that in Texas

thousands of cases are being reviewed for testimony about DNA odds that may have been given using outdated guidelines that inflated the likelihood a defendant had touched a murder weapon or another piece of evidence.

Developments in DNA technology had revolutionized the use of DNA evidence in criminal trials and had played a major role in the efforts to uncover wrongful convictions.

Although those involved in innocence litigation know that Texas has a very bad record in wrongful convictions, particularly based on DNA,  in the words of Barry Scheck (a co-founder of the Innocence Project), “Texas is the only place that’s systematically trying to correct it.”

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