The cadaver king and the country dentist
by Radley Balko · first published 2018
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Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher. "A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives. After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combi
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I'm glad this is getting more attention. If you're interested in learning more, the book The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist[1] is a great in-depth dive into a couple specific cases where testimony from "experts" resulted in the conviction of innocent people. It also does a good job explaining the incentives and institutions…
on “American justice system ignores science in the pursuit of convictions” ↗Proves the main thesis of his excellent book The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South https://www.amazon.com/Cadaver-King-Country-Dentist-Injustic...
on “Another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis” ↗