81. Ray Murray in a wide variety of both criminal and civil site to the ranch, and the investigationhelped reveal a NEW TECHNOLOGIES New methods are being developed to take http://www.forensicgeology.net/science.htm

HOME THE SCIENCE SERVICES LINKS ... CONTACT A man with a bad reputation as a poacher was under investigation for the murder of Margaeth Filbert in Bavaria, Germany. Investigating mud on the suspect's shoes, Georg Popp, a chemist and geologist in Frankfort, used geology to help solve the case. The suspect's wife testified that she had dutifully cleaned her husband's shoes the day before the crime. Those shoes had three layers of soil adhering to the leather in front of the heel. Popp reasoned that the innermost layer was the oldest. It contained goose droppings and other earth materials, matching samples from the walk outside the suspect's home. The second layer contained red sandstone fragments and other particles that compared with samples taken where Filbert's body had been found. The last layer and thus, Popp said, the youngest, contained brick, coal dust, cement and a series of other materials that matched samples taken outside a castle where the suspect's gun and clothing had been found. The suspect claimed he'd been walking in his fields the day of the crime. The lie didn't stick. Those fields were underlain by porphyry with milky quartz, and the soil had been wet that day. But Popp found no such material on the suspect's shoes. Case closed.

82. ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Net Paedophile Investigation Breaks New Ground Net paedophile investigation breaks new ground Section 78 of the Police and CriminalEvidence Act states that such methods make police agent provocateurs http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102908,00.html

ZDNet UK News Reviews Tech Update ... News Story Net paedophile investigation breaks new ground Tuesday 22nd January 2002 Wendy McAuliffe Covert tactics have been used for the first time to arrest and sentence a British Internet paedophile A British police officer has become the first to covertly catch an Internet paedophile using existing UK legislation. The groundbreaking case questions the need for new "grooming" laws as proposed by the Home Office. Detective inspector Darren Brookes at the West Midlands paedophile unit used covert tactics to investigate a public complaint about an Internet paedophile. He posed as a fictitious teenager within an Internet chatroom to gather evidence on the suspect's sexually explicit dialogue. "Current legislation allows us to do certain acts that other police departments would normally not get involved in," said Brookes. "We didn't look purely to entrap we didn't want to cause a person to commit a crime that they wouldn't normally do. We have enough crime without doing that." Robert Coleshill, 53, was jailed for six months at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday. A groundbreaking two-year Internet ban was also imposed, after he pleaded guilty to four charges of gross indecency and a further six counts of being in possession of indecent images of children.

83. Frontline: What Jennifer Saw: Barry Scheck | PBS can be done with respect to the methods we use at the very beginning of the investigationto eliminate save money in terms of the entire criminal justice system http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/interviews/scheck.html

var loc = "../../../"; Q: When you take these DNA exoneration cases, the ones which set an innocent person freewhat do they represent to you? SCHECK: The post-conviction DNA exoneration cases are telling us that there are more people being convicted for crimes in our criminal justice system who are innocent than any of us wanted to believe. It's really that simple. And there are many causes for this. Probably the first one is that when you have a system where most of the people who are charged with crimes are being represented by lawyers who are court-appointed (because the people are indigent), who lack experience in many instances or come from public defender offices that have too many cases and are unfunded, who are involved in cases where the crime labs are underfunded, where even the prosecution is short of resources and the caseloads are backed up, it makes a certain amount of sense that if the system is not funded and poor people are really getting screwed in the system that you're going to have mistakes. That there is going to be an error rate in that kind of system. There are other things that arise in almost all of these cases. There's police misconduct in many instances, prosecutorial misconduct, and as I was saying before, bad lawyering. Nothing convicts an innocent defendant faster than having a bad lawyer. No question about it.

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