Archive for the 'Forensics' Category
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Mississippi death investigation system moves slowly, kicking and screaming, into the 1980s.
Cop tasers undercover alcohol control agent he mistook for a robber. Should be interesting to see whose side of this story comes out on top.
McCain campaign flack Michael Goldfarb gets flummoxed.
More bad Halloween costumes (link NSFW–or good taste).
Noted without comment.
The dog ate it.
So this is the kind of thing it’s helpful to keep in mind when some politician tells you why we need to track more things in government databases. Like health care records.
Finally…
In The Know: Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The BBC somewhat surprisingly publishes the answer to the continuing tragedy of the commons that is the world’s fisheries: property rights!
Friend o’ the Agitator, former guest-blogger, and proprietor of the Crispy on the Outside food blog Baylen Linnekin will be guest-blogging at Overlawyered this week. Check him out.
Mississippi death row inmate and Hayne outrage Jeffrey Havard has exhausted his state appeals, and will now seek relief from the federal courts. I’ve written about Havard’s case here. Havard deserves a new trial. Executing him before he gets one would be a travesty.
Hip evangelicals get jiggy with it.
Virginian-Pilot columnist Kerry Dougherty seems to have changed her tune a bit since the last time she wrote about the Ryan Frederick case. When even the local law-and-order columnist starts to turn on the case, I think it means special prosecutor Paul Ebert has a problem on his hands.
Squalor!
Another case of puppycide, as a police officer in Mount Olive, North Carolina slaughters a vicious friendly yellow lab.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Fascinating story in the Washington Post about the ancient, conquered viruses encased in the human genome.
Good op-ed in this morning’s Baltimore Sun about police raids.
Beautiful photos of London at night.
Female Iraq War vet found in a contractor’s tent beaten, raped, shot in the head, and partially burned, with lye poured on her vagina. Somehow, Army doctors ruled her death a “suicide.” Dr. Hayne must be doing autopsies for the federal government, now.
Tough guys and puppies.
An Atlanta judge arrested for drunk driving who refused to take a breath test will not lose his license after the cop who pulled him over “lost the paperwork” associated with the arrest. How convenient.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Here’s the interview I did for reason.tv hashing out some of the broader issues of the case.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
San Antonio “tactical unit” using routine traffic stops in high-crime areas as an impetus for drugs and weapons searches. Probably won’t surprise you to learn that (a) there have been complaints, (b) they’re much more likely to use force against brown-skinned people than white-skinned people. But hey, they’ve seized more than $1 million!
Yer’ typical alarmist article about all the money flowing into the presidential election. My typical response: So long as the office of president grows increasingly powerful and influential, people will be willing to pay more and more money to (a) make sure their candidate wins, or (b) make sure whoever wins knows who they are.
Anyone else wanna’ call bullshit on this article?
The latest from Chesapeake. I’m not sure this tells us much of anything right now. But note it. Might become relevant later. It’s also interesting (and encouraging) just how skeptical the comments threads at the V-P site have become of the police department’s story.
World’s oldest audio recording.
Oliver Stone, call your agent! Forensics experts say someone other than Sirhan Sirhan killed Bobby Kennedy.
California tax collectors are stuck between collecting taxes on medical marijuana sales and the DEA’s continuing crackdown on the drug.
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