Evidence

Evidence in criminal cases can put someone in prison. Getting it right matters. Getting away with it matters even more to the perpetrator. The Wikipedia article on Eyewitness Identification is especially important. It is what persuades jurors most and what is most likely to be wrong. See Evidence ex Wiki as well. Robert Henderson gives comprehensive advice in Police, Law And You.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2019/03/george-pell-and-the-jury/

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2019/03/george-pell-and-the-jury/

 

 

Night Descends on Our Age of Reason
Peter Kurti | 15 March 2019

Memoirs of an Abused Altar Boy
Peter West | 15 March 2019

Whatever Happened to "Beyond Reasonable Doubt"?
Peter Smith | 15 March 2019

 

Pro-Pell and Pulped as a Consequence
David Daintree | 15 March 2019

 

Evidence ex Wiki 
The Wikipedia explains all, hopefully.

 

Police And Cameras
Police hate cameras. Police hate any evidence they can't beat using perjury, intimidation etcetera. This is one bit of law you really should know.

 

Computers And Filth
Don't do it. Failing which, don't get caught. Wiping old files properly is possible and desirable not merely regarding this kind of nausea. Albeit the site seems to be for perverts who want to get away with evil.

 

DIY Law
A lot of money claims and bad service claims can be done in person.

 

DNA Evidence Must Be Destroyed
Blair is a Fascist swine over ruled by Europe. DNA of the not guilty must NOT be held. See Gene Watch too.

 

DNA Evidence And Fraud
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If there's one application of modern genetics that the public has not only accepted but embraced, it's the use of DNA testing in criminal investigations. Courts have accepted DNA evidence as definitive, and it's difficult to imagine a movie or TV show that focuses on law enforcement but declines to use DNA testing as a plot device. The reason is simple: given a valid DNA sample, the tests can match it to its source with probabilities that exclude the rest of our planet's population. Those probabilities still hold, but some researchers have now looked into whether it's possible to fake a valid DNA sample, and they have come up with a disturbing answer: just about any molecular biology lab has the tools to do so.
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The average crook does not know how. The average jury doesn't either. Ditto for the judge. Rich crooks can buy the skill. That often means Jews - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html?_r=1 - DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show and http://www.fsigenetics.com/article/S1872-4973(09)00099-4/abstract - Authentication of forensic DNA samples

 

A Very Dodgy Conviction
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On 2 July 2001 Barry George, 41, was convicted at the Old Bailey of the murder of the broadcaster Jill Dando, best known as the presenter of the BBC programme Crimewatch. Few, if any recent convictions, have been greeted with such disquiet by the media. Leader comment (3 July) from the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph give the gist of press feeling: "Despite his loathsome character and criminal record, the evidence against George was hardly compelling" (Daily Mail). "...there can be few convictions that need the imprimatur of the higher courts [ ie the agreement of the Court of Appeal that the conviction is sound ] more than this." (Daily Telegraph). The comment is all the more noteworthy for coming from the two British national newspapers most unfriendly to the criminal and most supportive of the courts and the police.
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The BBC was making a fuss because one of their own was murdered. The Met wanted a result. They fingered a half wit with a bit of previous, a man from their List of Usual Suspects. The Crown Prosecution Service allowed extremely dubious evidence to be used to make a case. He went away for eight years because a Jury was not on the ball. Law is a crap shoot. Scott Lomax goes over the same ground in The Case of Barry George, Legal Notes No. 40, 2003.

 

Expert Evidence
Should you ever trust expert evidence? Not without a large dose of common sense especially if you are at the receiving end.

 

Eyewitness Identification ex Wiki        
In eyewitness identification, in criminal law, evidence is received from a witness "who has actually seen an event and can so testify in court".[1]

Although it has been observed, by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., in his dissent to Watkins v. Sowders, that witness testimony is evidence that "juries seem most receptive to, and not inclined to discredit".[2] Justice Brennan also observed that "At least since United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218 (1967), the Court has recognized the inherently suspect qualities of eyewitness identification evidence, and described the evidence as "notoriously unreliable".[2] The Innocence Project, a non-profit organization which has worked on using DNA evidence in order to reopen criminal convictions that were made before DNA testing was available as a tool in criminal investigations, states that "Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing."[3] In the United Kingdom, the Criminal Law Review Committee, writing in 1971, stated that cases of mistaken identification "constitute by far the greatest cause of actual or possible wrong convictions".[4]

Historically, eyewitness testimony had what Brennan described as "a powerful impact on juries",[2] who noted in his dissent that "All the evidence points rather strikingly to the conclusion that there is almost nothing more convincing [to a jury] than a live human being who takes the stand, points a finger at the defendant, and says 'That's the one!'"[5] Another commentator observed that the eyewitness identification of a person as a perpetrator was persuasive to jurors even when "far outweighed by evidence of innocence."[6]

 

Eyewitness Evidence Is Highly Unreliable 
Says Mother Jones. Newspaper articles can be highly misleading too.

 

False Allegations of Rape and or Domestic Abuse ex CPS
Is written to help the guilty.

 

False Accusation Of Rape ex Wiki  
Honest or politically motivated?

 

Pornography And The Register
The Register seems very switched on regarding beating paedophile raps and similar nasties. See for example Resistance To Interrogation In England Here is another offering.

 

  • Pornography And The Register 2
    A switched on lawyer is a good start.

     

    Pornography And The Register 3
    This is an important one with solid advice.

     

  • Suspect Identities - A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
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    "No two fingerprints are alike," or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society. We trust them to tell us who committed a crime, whether a criminal record exists, and how to resolve questions of disputed identity.

    But in Suspect Identities, Simon Cole reveals that the history of criminal identification is far murkier than we have been led to believe. Cole traces the modern system of fingerprint identification to the nineteenth-century bureaucratic state, and its desire to track and control increasingly mobile, diverse populations whose race or ethnicity made them suspect in the eyes of authorities. In an intriguing history that traverses the globe, taking us to India, Argentina, France, England, and the United States, Cole excavates the forgotten history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing. He reveals how fingerprinting ultimately won the trust of the public and the law only after a long battle against rival identification systems.

    As we rush headlong into the era of genetic identification, and as fingerprint errors are being exposed, this history uncovers the fascinating interplay of our elusive individuality, police and state power, and the quest for scientific certainty. Suspect Identities offers a necessary corrective to blind faith in the infallibility of technology, and a compelling look at its role in defining each of us.  
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    Believe nothing until it is officially denied.

     

    Talcum dog team leave red faces
    Teaching dogs the smell of cocaine makes sense. If a cop steals the coke the training is not much use. Are they looking for a thief? Maybe. Did villains get away with it? Maybe. Should you believe a police man? NEVER.

     

    False-Memory Research On Eyewitnesses, Child Abuse Recovered Memories
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    I Could Have Sworn …
    An interview with false-memory expert Elizabeth Loftus.

    From repressed memories to faulty eyewitness testimony, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California–Irvine, has made her name working on false memory. She tells Alison George how recollections can be conjured up, and how this process could even be used in therapy.

    Alison George: You study the fallibility of memories. Are we all prone to making things up?
    Elizabeth Loftus: We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

    AG: I hear you collect accounts of false memories.
    EL: Yes, mostly embarrassing mistakes that politicians have made. For example, Mitt Romney had a memory of being at the Golden Jubilee—an important festival in Michigan—and it turned out that the event occurred nine months before he was born.
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    It seems that Elizabeth Loftus is a distinguished professor of law and psychology. She understands the law regarding evidence and the mental issues too. Believe her? Lots of people in the business have and do.

     

    Elizabeth Loftus ex Wiki         
    Elizabeth F. Loftus
    (born Elizabeth Fishman, October 16, 1944) [2][3][4] is an American cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory. She has conducted extensive research on the malleability of human memory. Loftus is best known for her ground-breaking work on the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory,[5] and the creation and nature of false memories,[6] including recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.[7] As well as her prolific work inside the laboratory, Loftus has been heavily involved in applying her research to legal settings; she has consulted or provided expert witness testimony for hundreds of cases.[7][8] Loftus has been recognized throughout the world for her work, receiving numerous awards and honorary degrees. In 2002, Loftus was ranked 58th in the Review of General Psychology's list of the 100 most influential psychological researchers of the 20th century, and was the highest ranked woman on the list.[9]

     


     

    Lockerbie, Perverting Justice And Oil [ 10 September 2000 ]
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    LIBYA may be a headache for Gordon Brown, but some people are doing very nicely from relations with President Gaddafi's government. David Manning, who was Tony Blair's foreign policy advisor when Britain made overtures to Libya and played a crucial role in bringing the Gaddafi regime in from the cold, is now an executive of the BG Group, formerly British Gas, which has one of the most lucrative western energy contracts with Libya......

    In 2005 BG Group signed two major deals with Libya for gas exploration, followed in 2007 by a "joint announcement for cooperation" with Libya's National Oil Company. Now that the al-Megrahi case has been settled to Libya's satisfaction, observers expect this deal to lead to major work - a source of delight, no doubt, to Manning who left the diplomatic service in January 2008 and in July of that year started his £80,000-a-year part time job with BG Group.
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    Syria had to be on side for Desert Storm, the American invasion of Kuwait. Fingering someone else, anyone else for the Lockerbie Job was a major political priority. So little Mr al-Megrahi went to prison. Now he is out and we can buy Colonel Gaddafi's oil. See Lockerbie paper trail leads to Brown

    Follow the money is always a good rule with scum like this lot. Notice Justice off to the right looking horrified.

     

    Finger Print Evidence Is Not Good Enough [ 16 November 2007 ]
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    A Baltimore County judge has ruled that fingerprint evidence, a mainstay of forensics for nearly a century, is not reliable enough to be used against a homicide defendant facing a possible death sentence - a finding that national experts described yesterday as unprecedented and potentially far-reaching.
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    Look at the mug shot and decide whether he is guilty. It is fairly obvious.

     

    Father Of DNA Evidence Calls For Database To Be Cut  [ 11 September 2009 ]
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    On the 25th anniversary of his discovery of DNA fingerprinting, Sir Alec Jeffreys says innocent people should not be on database.
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    Technology is neutral. Politicians are evil.
    Who set up The 9/11 Job? Not Osama for starters.
    Who used it to destroy liberty? Bush, Blair and other fascists.

     

    Brett Kavanaugh Accuser Corroboration Is Necessary [ 17 September 2018 ]
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    One of the very first things that young litigators learn is that memory is a very, very fickle thing — even memories of traumatic events. In case after case, you’ll encounter two opposing litigants who speak with absolutely fierce conviction about key events in their lives, and those memories will often diverge almost completely. When I was young and naive, I often thought that meant one party was telling truth (my client!), and the other side was full of dirty, vicious liars.

    It didn’t take long for me to realize that more often than not both sides believed their own stories, and the longer the case dragged on, the more they hardened in their positions. That’s one reason why good lawyers, when interviewing clients, ask a few simple, key questions. “Did you take notes of these conversations?” “Did you tell anyone else this happened?” “Are there any emails or memos reflecting these agreements?” You’re constantly on a quest for the sword that slays the legal beast — corroborating evidence.

    That’s one reason why I’ve always been dissatisfied with the declaration, “Women don’t lie about rape.” Sure, some small number of women do affirmatively lie, but as a general matter, the word “lie” is an odd fit for a real world where perceptions differ and memories are malleable. And, by the way, this isn’t “right-wing denialism,” it’s just scientific fact.

    After the Rolling Stone debacle at the University of Virginia, Julia Belluz, Vox’s senior health correspondent and an “evidence enthusiast” wrote an interesting and true piece about the fragility of memory. First, she addresses the reliance on “Jackie’s” memory as the foundation of the story:

    This becomes an especially pressing question since it’s clear that the reporter relied on Jackie’s memory — and decades of research have demonstrated that memories are are malleable, fragile, flawed. Memories can be twisted by time. Misinformation can skew people’s memories of events, and completely fabricated memories can even be planted in people such that they weave them into the narrative of their lives.

    “Just because someone is telling you something in a lot of detail and with a great amount of confidence,” says Elizabeth Loftus, a cognitive psychologist and one of America’s preeminent researchers on memory, “doesn’t mean it happened.”

    Belluz then discusses a number of studies detailing how easy it is to implant memories (in one study, subjects “remembered” details of a surgery that never happened), how matters as simple as sleep deprivation can impact memory, and how even short passages of time can distort recollections. For example, Jackie said her attack happened in 2012. The Rolling Stone story was published in 2014:

    Between the time of the alleged UVA attack (2012) and the reporting of the story this year, Loftus said, “You could certainly expect memory to fade, to potentially be contaminated, even if not from external suggestion.”

    The conclusion of Belluz’s article is chilling:

    But perhaps, if [Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina] Erdely thought more about the tricks memory plays, she would have worked harder to verify the facts — no matter how sensitive. If you understand that memory is a foggy patchwork or synthesis of events and exposures in our lives — and some memories aren’t real — you would probably hesitate before relying solely on a person’s memory.

    “It’s very compelling to believe someone’s memory,” said Loftus, “especially when they cry. But I’ve seen people cry over false memories, as well as over real ones.”

    Brett Kavanaugh has denied the claims and offered to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Good. We should hear from Judge Kavanaugh and from Professor Ford, under oath. And we need to know whether Senator Feinstein’s staff or the Washington Post found any corroborating evidence at all in the weeks when they had knowledge of Ford’s claims.

    Of course, the memory challenges run both ways, but — at the same time — if a person is going to affirmatively accuse another person of misconduct, the accuser bears at least some burden of proof (even if the court of public opinion isn’t a court of law). In my previous piece about the allegations against Kavanaugh, I argued that the right question to ask is whether it’s more likely than not that the accusations are true. And if there isn’t any corroboration or external evidence outside of Christine Ford’s three-decades-old recollections, that’s simply not sufficient basis for derailing the nomination of an outstanding jurist — no matter how fiercely they’re believed.
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    It all sounds reasonable and true.

     

    Woman Gets Five Years For Ten Fraudulent Rape Allegations   [ 3 October 2022 ]
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    An Essex woman made 10 false rape claims against two men leading to 60 police investigations - which eventually found that the men were not in the area at the time.

    Cathy Richardson, 35, from Westcliff, made a series of allegations against two men between January and May 2021, and has now been sentenced to more than five years in prison...........

    As officers progressed their enquiries into Richardson's claims, they found that CCTV, phone data, and information from automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras showed the alleged attacker was not in the area at the time Richardson alleged the assaults to have taken place. 
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    The actual charge was Perverting The Course Of Justice. The Mail is censoring comments even though she isn't black. The readers do not approve of her.

     

    Lizard DNA Tests As Half Jew & Half Asian  [ 22 February 2023 ]
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    A man and his wife decided to test the accuracy of 23andMe's at-home DNA testing kit by sending in a saliva sample collected from their pet lizard. What they found is that the whole thing is a sham.

    In the following video, the man explains how after three months of waiting, he received anomalous results suggesting that his pet lizard is 48 percent West Asian and 51 percent Ashkenazi Jewish. 23andMe also sent him a report explaining the lizard’s history and background, including what he supposedly likes to eat........

    Rumor Mill News, reporting on the results, noted the irony of the lizard basically testing positive for “serpent seed” DNA, seeing as how infamous globalist “lizard people” like George Soros and Lord Rothschild are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin.........

    23andMe was co-founded, it is important to note, by lizard person Susan Wojcicki [ Yes, she's a Jew - Editor ], who currently holds the title of CEO over at YouTube. YouTube, as you probably know, is owned by Google, which is arguably the evilest corporation in the world.
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    Oh well, just give up on DNA.

     

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    Updated onThursday, 06 April 2023 09:46:26