Old Case, New Research Test Validity of Bite-Mark Evidence
Sunday Gazette-Mail › July 21, 2008
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. - In a cubicle at Marquette University, a professor of dentistry and a former prosecutor are trying to use computer science to shore up a beleaguered forensic discipline.
But as the two men try to lay the groundwork to provide a statistical backbone to preserve bite-mark comparison's place in the courtroom, they are being confronted with new evidence from a 1984 murder case that suggests their own use of this controversial analysis may have sent an innocent man to prison.See the full content of this document
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Old Case, New Research Test Validity of Bite-Mark Evidence
Dr. L. Thomas Johnson, a veteran forensic odontologist at Marquette, and a colleague, law professor Daniel Blinka, worked together on that criminal case - the first in Wisconsin to use bite- mark evidence. Blinka was the prosecutor who brought the charges and Johnson testified that the bite marks on the victim were made by Robert Stinson.
Stinson, who has always insisted he ...See the full content of this document
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