The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and misdemeanours with instinctive compulsion.

HONOLULU (KITV4) - The public pressure to get a conviction combined with what some call “junk science” led to the wrongful conviction of Albert Ian Schweitzer. In the 1991 Dana Ireland case, there was ...

A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center details a vast network of junk science organizations masquerading as authoritative medical sources in the far-right’s effort to manipulate public ...

It's Halloween. So what could be scarier than a state throwing a person in prison for arson when the fire was accidental? Executing him. That's the lesson of a report released Friday by the Texas ...

Former Detective Brian Wharton testifies during a Criminal Jurisprudence hearing on death row inmate Robert Roberson on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 in Austin. Wharton was an investigator in the case of ...

New Jersey policymakers should act to ensure that junk science has no place in our legal system. Patients deserve better.

AUSTIN, Texas (The Texas Tribune) - Over a decade ago, the Texas Legislature passed a groundbreaking law to provide justice when the scientific evidence for a criminal conviction has changed or been ...