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Forum: Trials and Errors 14th March 2024, 08:55 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 564
Posted By Chris_Halkides
stay tuned

From what I can gather, this is an ongoing investigation; therefore, details are not being released to the general public.
Forum: Trials and Errors 14th March 2024, 04:16 AM
Replies: 87
Views: 4,522
Posted By Chris_Halkides
flawed identification procedures

Brett Wilson LLP wrote (https://www.brettwilson.co.uk/blog/the-tragic-case-of-andrew-malkinson/), "On 3 August 2003, Beverley Craig also attended an identification parade. Whilst she initially picked...
Forum: Trials and Errors 11th March 2024, 08:23 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 564
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Negative controls in DNA profiling

NBC News reported that "she interfered with controls". There is an article in The Champion by William Thompson about DNA called "Tarnish on the Gold Standard." IIRC he said that the negative...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th March 2024, 05:24 PM
Replies: 292
Views: 6,836
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Elise Stefanik

The Economist's columnist Lexington quoted Elise Stefanik on the allegations against President Biden and his son Hunter Biden as being "the biggest political corruption scandal" of "the past 100...
Forum: Trials and Errors 4th March 2024, 06:45 AM
Replies: 479
Views: 29,593
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Annie Le and secondary transfer of DNA

Richard Clark murdered Yale graduate student Annie Le over ten years ago, and there is no doubt about his guilt. My understanding is that her body was placed in an alcove behind a partition or wall...
Forum: Trials and Errors 24th February 2024, 08:37 AM
Replies: 1,115
Views: 311,346
Posted By Chris_Halkides
The vagaries of memory

I remember hearing that claim from her. I also remember that John responded to it by saying that she had treated him well on the day that JonBenet's body was discovered (I don't have a citation...
Forum: Trials and Errors 23rd February 2024, 11:26 AM
Replies: 1,115
Views: 311,346
Posted By Chris_Halkides
confirmation bias

Mr. Ramsey was quoted (https://okmagazine.com/p/jonbenet-ramseys-killer-may-be-revealed-27-years-murder/): "There's nothing more dangerous than a police department that's made up its mind, because...
Forum: USA Politics 16th February 2024, 05:03 AM
Replies: 81
Split Thread: Why Capital punishment?
Views: 1,421
Posted By Chris_Halkides
two drawbacks

“The numbers show that the death penalty has dangerous effects on the criminal justice system that go far beyond the already significant risk of executing innocent people,” said DPIC Executive...
Forum: Trials and Errors 15th February 2024, 08:02 AM
Replies: 596
Views: 64,787
Posted By Chris_Halkides
the press on the finding of Jodi's body

"He has never publicly shed a tear and did not wince when pictures of her mutilated body were shown on wall-mounted screens in the High Court in Edinburgh...In his closing speech, Alan Turnbull QC...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 8th February 2024, 03:49 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 1,883
Posted By Chris_Halkides
from documentaries about Elan

Brittany Rose wrote (https://wjbq.com/elan/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral) about Elan, "The school had a $50k admission fee and unless the students flew in willingly, many were picked up by...
Forum: Trials and Errors 1st February 2024, 06:16 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Representatives and wrongful convictions

Going on memory here, but one of the Birmingham Six, Patrick Joseph (Paddy Joe) Hill, asked the MP where his prison was to get involved. The MP was, in Hill's telling, of a different social station...
Forum: Trials and Errors 30th January 2024, 12:54 PM
Replies: 1,494
Views: 77,409
Posted By Chris_Halkides
changing one's mind

Funk de fino wrote (https://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=5389117#post5389117) on 8 December 2009, "I find this rather strange. A Libyan is apparently stitched up on...
Forum: Trials and Errors 28th January 2024, 04:47 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 18,944
Posted By Chris_Halkides
no witness

It is a little odd that no one saw Scott with Lacie's body as he was going to the boat, but perhaps the launch area was unpopulated.
Forum: Trials and Errors 25th January 2024, 08:46 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
CCTV and other evidence

Barry Conache, a friend of the Garbutt couple listed (https://empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/ccrcwatch/post/why-i-do-not-think-robin-garbutt-murdered-his-wife-and-my-friend-diana-garbutt) some of the...
Forum: Trials and Errors 24th January 2024, 09:57 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
witness statement

Vanessa Golding wrote (https://empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/ccrcwatch/post/i-believe-there-to-be-a-great-miscarriage-of-justice-in-the-case-of-robin-garbutt), "I would also like to highlight that I...
Forum: Trials and Errors 23rd January 2024, 10:37 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
temperature and TOD

Burkhard Madea wrote, "The current gold standard for death time estimation is a previously established nomogram method based on the two-exponential model of body cooling." link...
Forum: Trials and Errors 22nd January 2024, 08:18 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
potential pieces of evidence

Was there a CCTV camera nearby, and was it checked? Did someone take the temperature of Diana Garbutt's body, in order to determine TOD? Were Ms Garbutt's fingernails checked for DNA? These...
Forum: Trials and Errors 21st January 2024, 01:55 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
indicators of the time of death

More on the stomach contents and related matters here (https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/law-students-call-for-robin-garbutt-case-to-be-referred-back-to-court-of-appeal/). "At the trial, the jury...
Forum: Trials and Errors 20th January 2024, 09:15 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
gun and balaclava found elsewhere; lamps

To the murder. They were found at a distant location, but I was wondering if they were not considered relevant for any other reason. There was other potential evidence...
Forum: Trials and Errors 20th January 2024, 07:58 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
the alleged murder weapon and the time of death

The Justice Gap reported (https://www.thejusticegap.com/robin-garbutt-man-given-life-sentence-for-murdering-his-wife-challenges-conviction-for-a-third-time-2/), "Now, newly discovered unaired footage...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 18th January 2024, 02:59 PM
Replies: 1,375
Views: 109,366
Posted By Chris_Halkides
suicide, not Covid-19

There are reports in major news outlets that Mr. Musser died by suicide. It is possible that Covid-19 caused a physical or mental decline.
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 10:47 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
DNA on the murder weapon

Bill Robertson wrote an essay...
Forum: Trials and Errors 18th January 2024, 07:00 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Posted By Chris_Halkides
how not to collect evidence

The Guardian reported, "North Yorkshire police officers lost key evidence, including a clump of hair found on the pillow in the couple’s bedroom. The hair, which was a different colour to both...
Forum: Trials and Errors 16th January 2024, 08:15 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Conflict of interest?

Jake Malooley reported (https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/march-2022/unmaking-a-murderer/), "A couple years into Weger’s sentence, when the reward money in the case was distributed, State’s...
Forum: Trials and Errors 15th January 2024, 08:53 PM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By Chris_Halkides
a judge summed up one of the cases

From the Private Eye article (linked (https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justice-lost-in-the-post.pdf) in the early pages of this thread):
“There is no direct evidence of her...
Forum: USA Politics 15th January 2024, 11:49 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,000
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Plasmid DNA vaccines vs mRNA vaccines

Plasmid DNA viruses are contrasted with mRNA vaccines at this link...
Forum: Trials and Errors 15th January 2024, 06:08 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By Chris_Halkides
no 12-strand twine

In a 1991 story called "Murder, they wrought," The Chicago Tribune wrote, "After examining the twine that bound the wrists of two of the victims, John F. Schaich, supervisor of the Illinois State...
Forum: Trials and Errors 15th January 2024, 05:26 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Morris on the fingermarks

On 21 April 1960 the Bloomington Pantograph reported that "A mass fingerprinting operation is in progress at Starved Rock but officials have said fingerprints found on undergarments of the victims...
Forum: USA Politics 13th January 2024, 12:15 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,000
Posted By Chris_Halkides
a pseudo-hypothesis

Scientific American reported, "In order to enter human cell nuclei, any such residual viral DNA would first have to enter the cell’s main compartment, or cytoplasm, which normally keeps foreign DNA...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th January 2024, 11:32 AM
Replies: 292
Views: 6,836
Posted By Chris_Halkides
spectrum of offenses

The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/06/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism) reported, "It was through AI that the inconsistencies in Gay’s scholarship were found. In some works,...
Forum: Trials and Errors 11th January 2024, 09:56 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By Chris_Halkides
a story within the story

Paul Sawers wrote (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/fujitsu-post-office-scandal-government/), "Since the start of this year, the British Post Office Scandal has dominated headlines and public...
Forum: Trials and Errors 9th January 2024, 05:37 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By Chris_Halkides
strands of evidence

"Another one is the stupid twine. Even in the doc as Warren explains it it makes no sense. Nevermind that, again, it's months later. It begs the question was that spool even there during the time of...
Forum: Trials and Errors 8th January 2024, 08:27 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Newspaper articles covering the bloody fingermarks

I looked at three articles archived by the Friends of Chester Weger on Facebook. Below are some direct quotes from three newspaper articles. I removed some paragraph breaks to shorten this comment....
Forum: Trials and Errors 8th January 2024, 10:21 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Littleton's 2002 testimony; Ofshe's 2013 testimony

The NYT reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/14/nyregion/skakel-tutor-once-a-suspect-says-his-admission-in-the-moxley-killing-was-wrong.html) in 2002, "The judge in the murder trial of Michael...
Forum: Trials and Errors 6th January 2024, 01:59 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Posted By Chris_Halkides
fellow Elan clients

In 2019 Oxygen reported, "Now, [Chuck] Seigan believes that no credible confession could have come from Skakel during his time at the Elan School. As time went on, Seigan also began questioning...
Forum: USA Politics 5th January 2024, 05:41 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,000
Posted By Chris_Halkides
DNAse

A portion of the letter from the FDA reads, "As part of the purification
process during production, the mRNA is treated with DNAse to digest residual DNA." DNAse hydrolyzes phosphodiester bonds in...
Forum: USA Politics 4th January 2024, 08:23 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,000
Posted By Chris_Halkides
contaminants are ubiquitous

The New York Times reported, "Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing widely debunked concerns that contaminants in the vaccine can permanently...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 4th January 2024, 07:34 PM
Replies: 1,375
Views: 109,366
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Ladapo's second verse the same as his first

The New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/health/covid-vaccines-florida.html), "Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing...
Forum: Trials and Errors 4th January 2024, 07:00 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Posted By Chris_Halkides
at least four persons of interest

"The school [Elan] had a $50k admission fee and unless the students flew in willingly, many were picked up by transport staff, the YouTube video stated. Parents would arrange pick-up but to the teen...
Forum: Trials and Errors 4th January 2024, 03:08 PM
Replies: 596
Views: 64,787
Posted By Chris_Halkides
CCTV at Luke's school?

To demonstrate that Luke had a parka prior to the murder, the prosecution should have produced CCTV images from Luke's school of Luke's wearing it. If they did not look for such video, the police...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 4th January 2024, 10:43 AM
Replies: 292
Views: 6,836
Posted By Chris_Halkides
hats off to Ken White

Attorney Ken White said in part, "If you think the question “is calling for the genocide of a group against your policy” is an easy question with a one-word answer, you’re wrong. I understand you...
Forum: Trials and Errors 4th January 2024, 10:04 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Elan

The National Registry of Exonerations stated (https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5860) in part, "Other Elan students testified that these statements [of...
Forum: Trials and Errors 4th January 2024, 05:57 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Posted By Chris_Halkides
apparent lack of crime scene photographs

The New York Post reported (https://nypost.com/2002/05/12/prosecutors-carrying-on-decades-of-gross-bumbling/), “'The reason I wasn’t there [at the murder of Martha Moxley] was because I was on a much...
Forum: Trials and Errors 3rd January 2024, 06:47 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Posted By Chris_Halkides
time of death

I do not understand why her body was not found sooner. But that coupled with the apparent lack of an examination at the crime scene means that an attempt to determine the time of death using...
Forum: Trials and Errors 3rd January 2024, 05:21 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Posted By Chris_Halkides
48 hours

The host of a blog wrote (http://marthamoxley.www8.50megs.com/cops.htm), "They did not look underneath the pine tree where Martha lay dead...The medical examiner at the time, Elliot Gross, was...
Forum: Trials and Errors 3rd January 2024, 10:20 AM
Replies: 596
Views: 64,787
Posted By Chris_Halkides
during Steven Kelly's testimony

Gordon McIlwraith wrote (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Witness+flees+as+Jodi+pics+shown%3b+MURDER+TRIAL+HALTED+AFTER+ACCUSED...-a0126028389), "A YOUNG barman fled court as he was shown pictures of...
Forum: Trials and Errors 2nd January 2024, 06:39 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By Chris_Halkides
James Glasgow

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that, "Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow says he believes the original confession of convicted “Starved Rock killer” Chester Weger in the bludgeoning deaths of...
Forum: Trials and Errors 2nd January 2024, 04:49 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By Chris_Halkides
what really happened?

I am not surprised, but it is always disappointing when the criminal justice system digs in its heels.

I am very doubtful that Chester Weger was involved, mainly on the basis of the bloody...
Forum: Trials and Errors 2nd January 2024, 02:13 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,293
Posted By Chris_Halkides
No Vacancy

The State of Illinois (USA) is not (https://www.the-sun.com/news/9946196/chester-weger-prison-da-refuse-overturn-conviction/) budging: "Our position has not changed on vacating Mr. Weger’s...
Forum: Trials and Errors 31st December 2023, 11:15 AM
Replies: 623
Views: 40,150
Posted By Chris_Halkides
Mr Bates does not go to Washington

The Standard has an introductory article...
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