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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; junk science</title>
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		<title>“JUNK SCIENCE” ONCE AGAIN PUTS TEXAS IN NATIONAL FOREFRONT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2012/01/05/%e2%80%9cjunk-science%e2%80%9d-once-again-puts-texas-in-national-forefront/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Lawyers Need to Challenge Questionable Expert Testimony and Conclusions

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In October 2010 we posted piece titled “Dog Witnesses Kicked Out of the Courtroom” concerning a capital murder case in San Jacinto County. The accused, all members of the same family—Richard Lynn Winfrey Sr. and his son, Richard Jr., and daughter, Megan—were arrested in 2006 for the brutal murder of Murray Wayne Burr, a longtime custodial worker at the high school attended by the Winfrey siblings. Local law enforcement officials considered Winfrey and his two children as “persons of interests” shortly after Burr was murdered in his home, even though DNA evidence found at scene excluded the Winfreys. The proverbial “break in the case” came in 2006 when Richard Sr., who was housed in the Montgomery County jail, told another inmate David Campbell that “some kind of gun and some kind of knife collection” had been taken from Burr’s home, as well as other details about the murder, including the victim’s body being dragged from one room to another. Campbell repeated this information to the authorities.]]></description>
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		<title>DOG WITNESSES KICKED OUT OF THE COURTROOM?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/10/06/dog-witnesses-kicked-out-of-the-courtroom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/10/06/dog-witnesses-kicked-out-of-the-courtroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winfrey v. State: Evidence of Dog Scent Line-Up Identification, Standing Alone, Legally Insufficient to Support Conviction

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair.

The San Deigo Police Foundation reports that police dogs work 8 ½ years before being retired and it costs $8500 to replace a retired canine. Dogs serve a legitimate purpose in crime prevention: their sense of smell is nearly 50 times stronger than humans and they can search an area 10 times quicker than a human. Dogs have a long history in law enforcement.  For example, bloodhounds were used as early as the 18th century in Europe to track criminals. Germany and Belgium became the first European countries to formalize training of dogs in police work, mostly guard duty. German sheperds served Third Reich well in World War II and returning American soldiers brought this information home with them from the front lines. Following the lead of London and other large European police departments, major American city police departments also began to establish K-9 units in the 1970s, consisting mostly of German sheperds, in their crime-fighting duties.]]></description>
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		<title>CAMERON TODD WILLINGHAM: IMPROPER OR WRONGFUL CONVICTION?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/07/29/cameron-todd-willingham-improper-or-wrongful-conviction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/07/29/cameron-todd-willingham-improper-or-wrongful-conviction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Defense Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas Forensic Science Commission Concludes Flawed Science Used In Trial That Led To Conviction and Execution

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

It was December 1991 in Corsicana, Texas. Cameron Todd Willingham was alone in his residence with his three small children—Amber 2, and one-year-old twins, Karmon and Kameron. A fire broke out in the residence. Willingham managed to escape the fire. The three children did not, dying a horrible death trapped in the flames that quickly engulfed the residence. Willingham was immediately targeted as a suspect for arson murder. He was indicted on January 8, 1992. After turning down an opportunity to plead guilty for a life sentence, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in August 1992. He was executed on February 17, 2004, angrily telling all those present that he was an innocent man. The political and media fallout from Willingham’s execution began before his remains were laid to rest. The case’s controversial history can be found on Billy Sinclair’s blog here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. But essentially Willingham was convicted and executed because state officials involved in the case—and with a lot of help from the condemned inmate himself—successfully portrayed him as a “monster” throughout the trial and execution process. The basis for this portrait was:]]></description>
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		<title>HOUSTON LAW ENFORCEMENT FACES TOUGH TIMES</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/06/09/houston-law-enforcement-faces-tough-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/06/09/houston-law-enforcement-faces-tough-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homicide Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decreased Police Budget: Increased Unsolved Crime, Botched Investigations, Wrongful Arrests and Convictions

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Thomas Hargrove, Scripps Howard News Service, reported last month that 6,000 homicides go unsolved in this country each year. Hargrove said the number of “unsolved homicides” has risen at an alarming rate even though the nation’s homicide rate has decreased to levels last seen in the 1960s. Most of these unsolved homicides occur in dozens of the nation’s largest cities.]]></description>
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		<title>MORE EVIDENCE OF BAD EVIDENCE &#8211; AGAIN</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/29/more-evidence-of-bad-evidence-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/29/more-evidence-of-bad-evidence-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Criminal Defense Attorneys Must Question Findings, Conclusions of Forensic Experts

By:  Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have posted a number of blogs about the “junk science” associated with forensic evidence—a science popularized by network television with drams like “CSI” and its spin-offs. It would indeed by an ideal world if all the evidence-gathering and analysis reflected in these TV programs reflected the real world of crime and criminal prosecutions. The reality is that while these shows may entertain their legion of loyal viewers,]]></description>
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		<title>THE JUNK SCIENCE OF DOG SCENT LINEUPS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/02/the-junk-science-of-dog-scent-lineups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/02/the-junk-science-of-dog-scent-lineups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular Law Enforcement Dog Handler Discredited After False Results, Exaggerated Claims of Accuracy Exposed

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have blogged (False Forensics: An Attorney’s Worst Nightmare, May 1, 2009) in the past about the dangers of “false forensic” evidence being used in courtrooms to convict innocent people. The New York-based Innocence Project reported in 2007 that 65% of the nation’s first 200 DNA exonerations in this country involved fraudulent, unreliable or limited forensic science. Wrongful convictions based on false forensics—or what is commonly referred to as “junk science”—in the State of Texas occur with the same or at a greater frequency.]]></description>
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