Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)

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Change history

January 30th, 2023
- Edited Excerpt from transcript in criminal case before The Honorable T.S. Ellis, III.
- Edited Excerpt from EVIDENTIARY FOUNDATIONS, by Edward J. Imwinkelried (2012)
January 24th, 2023
- Removed Writing Reflection #25 from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed Government's brief arguing for the exclusion of the defense expert on eyewitness IDs from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed A Black Man Spent 7 Years in Prison. Then a Court Changed the Rules on Racial Bias from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed New York’s default jury instructions for eyewitness identifications from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed People v. Boone from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed Class 25: Eyewitness ID from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed Writing Reflection #24 from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed Class 24: Second draft from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed Writing Reflection #21 from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed Class 21: Small Group Meetings from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Edited New Amendment to Fed. R. of Evidence 702 and Committee Note
- Edited Chapter 61 in Learning Evidence (Merritt & Simmons)
January 18th, 2023
- Added Course Overview
January 16th, 2023
- Added OPTIONAL: Garbage In, Gospel Out: How Data-Driven Policing Technologies Entrench Historic Racism and ‘Tech-wash’ Bias in the Criminal Legal System
- Added Except from Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 43 F.3d 1311 (9th Cir. 1995)
January 15th, 2023
- Added Motion to Exclude Firearms Testimony Under Frye
- Removed Writing Reflection #8 from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Edited Writing Reflection #6
- Edited Writing Reflection #5
- Added Writing Reflection #9
- Added Writing Reflection #4
- Removed Qualifying Experts and Expert Testimony from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
- Removed Daubert continued (relationship to Kumho) from Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)
January 6th, 2023
- Edited Read the Course Syllabus
- Added Op-Ed: Black people are wrongly convicted more than any other group. We can prevent this
- Edited Writing Reflection #2
- Edited Writing Reflection #1
- Edited Part 2: Advanced Evidence Intro Survey
- Edited Part 1: Advanced Evidence Intro Survey
August 25th, 2022
- Removed Enroll in our Moodle course from Advanced Evidence Spring 2022
- Removed Video Instructions for our Moodle Course Page from Advanced Evidence Spring 2022
April 25th, 2022
- Edited Georgia v. Denton, Order Granting Extraordinary Motion for New Trial (Feb. 7, 2020)
April 24th, 2022
- Added Georgia v. Denton, Order Granting Extraordinary Motion for New Trial (Feb. 7, 2020)
- Added California Senate Bill 923
- Added Oregon Bill SB 418 (Effective date, January 1, 2022)
- Added West Virginia House Judiciary Committee Unanimously Approves Legislation to Address Wrongful Convictions
April 15th, 2022
- Added Government's brief arguing for the exclusion of the defense expert on eyewitness IDs
- Added A Black Man Spent 7 Years in Prison. Then a Court Changed the Rules on Racial Bias
- Added New York’s default jury instructions for eyewitness identifications
- Added People v. Boone
April 8th, 2022
- Added “Rule Application" in Legal Writing & Analysis by Linda H. Edwards
- Added “Rule Explanations” in Legal Writing & Analysis, by Linda H. Edwards
April 6th, 2022
- Added “Umbrella Section” in Legal Writing & Analysis, by Linda H. Edwards
- Added Persuasion Through Organization: Roadmap Paragraphs-Plotting Success from the Opening Line
- Added How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus
- Added Study Finds Bloodstain Bias
- Added Bloodstain Analysis Convinced a Jury She Stabbed Her 10-Year-Old Son. Now, Even Freedom Can’t Give Her Back Her Life.
- Added Reliability Assessment of Current Methods in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
- Added Convicted by Blood: The case of Brad Jennings
- Added Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Added 33 Years After Dubious Evidence Helped Convict Him, Joe Bryan Has Been Released on Parole
- Added Influential Texas Commission Says Blood-Spatter Testimony in Joe Bryan’s Murder Case Was “Not Accurate or Scientifically Supported”
- Added Blood Will Tell (Part 2)
- Added Blood Will Tell (Part 1)
- Added Excerpt from the 2009 NAS Report regarding bloodstain pattern analysis
April 1st, 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #21
- Added Writing Reflection #26
- Added Writing Reflection #25
- Added Writing Reflection #24
- Added Writing Reflection #23
- Added Writing Reflection #22
- Added Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification
- Added Proposed federal law: S.2052 - Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2021
- Added Facial Recognition Laws in the United States (List of bans)
- Added How is Face Recognition Surveillance Technology Racist?
- Added Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology
- Added Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots
- Added Writing Reflection #20
- Added Challenging Facial Recognition Software in Criminal Court
- Added The Hidden Role of Facial Recognition Tech in Many Arrests
- Added NIST Study Evaluates Effects of Race, Age, Sex on Face Recognition Software | NIST
- Added The Racist History Behind Facial Recognition
- Added Garbage In, Garbage Out | Face Recognition on Flawed Data
March 25th, 2022
- Added OPTIONAL: In the Beginning: The Art of Crafting Preliminary Statements
- Added Drafting the Introduction or Preliminary Statement
March 16th, 2022
- Added Brief Thoughts on Effective Brief Writing
March 14th, 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #19
- Added Playing with Fire: How Junk Science Sent Claude Garrett to Prison For Life
- Added Convicted Of A Murder That Didn’t Happened --The Claude F. Garrett Story
- Added Fresh Doubts Over a Texas Execution: New evidence revives concerns that a man was wrongly put to death in 2004
- Added Writing Reflection #18
- Added Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis (July 11, 2017)
- Added 3 Men Imprisoned in 1980 Brooklyn Arson Case Are Exonerated
- Added "Trial by Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?”
- Added “Measuring the Impact of Cognitive Bias in Fire Investigation”
March 3rd, 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #16
- Added Writing Reflection #15
- Added Memorandum from Robert Ferarri, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, to Justice Maxwell Wiley re. People v. Dean (Jan. 8, 2016)
- Added Texas science commission is first in the U.S. to recommend moratorium on bite mark evidence
- Added How the flawed ‘science’ of bite mark analysis has sent innocent people to prison
- Added Writing Reflection #14
- Added Motion to vacate the conviction of Eddie Lee Howard, Jr.
- Added Pages 67-68 and 83-87 in Chapter 5 of the 2016 PCAST Report on “Bitemark Analysis.”
February 27th, 2022
- Added Wrongful Convictions of Youth Clinic
- Added Digital Evidence at CSAFE
- Added Bloodstain - Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence
- Added False Confessions Resources
- Added False Confessions & Interrogations
- Added FalseConfessions.Org
February 26th, 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #13
- Added NY Bill No. A05891B (New York State Assembly)
- Added New York Youth Need Attorney Before Interrogation, Coalition Tells State Lawmakers
- Added Gerald Gault, Meet Brendan Dassey: Preventing Juvenile False and Coerced Confessions in the 21st Century
- Added OPTOIONAL: Police Body Cameras: What Do You See?
- Added OPTIONAL: The Accused: An interactive experience
- Added Writing Reflection #12
- Added Constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime
- Added Defense Brief on Appeal of Trial Court's Exclusion of Expert Testimony on False Confessions
- Added “Why Do Innocent People Confess? Understanding & Challenging False Confessions”
- Added This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn't commit
February 19th, 2022
- Removed Class 15 from Advanced Evidence Spring 2022
- Removed COMING SOON from Advanced Evidence Spring 2022
- Added Defense Proposed Fingerprint Jury Instruction
- Added Defense Proposed Likelihood Ratio in DNA Evidence Jury Instruction
- Added Defense Proposed Eyewitness ID Jury Instruction
- Added Model motion requesting a jury instruction on eyewitness identification testimony
- Added Defense Proposed CSI Jury Instruction
- Added Standard jury instruction in New York on expert testimony
- Added Fingerprint Discovery Request
- Added Stingray Discovery Request
- Added Facial Recognition Discovery Request
- Added The Epidemic of Brady Violations: Explained
- Added New York Criminal Procedure Law Regarding Discovery
- Added Judge Rakoff’s resignation letter
February 18th, 2022
- Removed Frye v. United States from Advanced Evidence Spring 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #11
- Added Writing Reflection #10
- Added Mock Jurors’ Evaluation of Firearm Examiner Testimony
- Added Department of Justice Proposed Uniform Language for Testimony and Reports for the Forensic Firearms/Toolmarks Discipline – Pattern Match Examination
- Added Recommendation by the National Commission on Forensic Science regarding Expert Testimony
- Added Motion to limit examiner’s testimony in United States v. Antwan Holcomb
- Added Williams v. United States
- Added COMING SOON
February 7th, 2022
- Added Example of Expert Notice (2)
- Added Writing Reflection #8
- Added Example of Expert Notice (1)
- Added Townsend v. Morequity, Inc. (In re Townsend)
- Added Federal Rule of Evidence 705
- Added Federal Rule of Evidence 703
- Added Chapter 63 in Learning Evidence (Merritt & Simmons)
February 6th, 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #7
- Added Excerpt from transcript in trial of Jessie Misskelley, one of the West Memphis 3
- Added Excerpt from transcript in criminal case before The Honorable T.S. Ellis, III.
- Added Excerpt from EVIDENTIARY FOUNDATIONS, by Edward J. Imwinkelried (2012)
- Added Chapter 62 in Learning Evidence (Merritt and Simmons)
- Added Excerpt from Advisory Committee Notes on Rule 702
- Added Almeciga v. Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc.
January 23rd, 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #6
- Added Characteristics of science
- Added Missouri v. Goodwin-Bey (2016)
- Added Excerpt from Addendum to the 2016 PCAST Report
- Added Chapter 4 from the PCAST Report
- Added Writing Reflection #5
- Added Asking the Gatekeepers: A National Survey of Judges on Judging Expert Evidence in a Post-Daubert World
- Added United States v. Tibbs
- Added Chapter 3 from the 2009 NRC Report
January 21st, 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #4
- Added Writing Reflection #3
- Added OPTIONAL 9 min. video explaining the Daubert decision
- Added Proposed Amendment to Fed. R. of Evidence 702 and Committee Note
- Added Fed. Rule of Evidence 702
- Added Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Added Chapter 61 in Learning Evidence (Merritt & Simmons)
- Added OPTIONAL Fingerprints: the Convoluted Patterns of Racism | Digital History
January 17th, 2022
- Added Government's Reply to the Motion to Exclude Fingerprint Evidence under Frye
- Added Video Instructions for our Moodle Course Page
- Added OPTIONAL: Court's decision in New York v. Williams
- Added Innocence Project Amicus Brief in New York v. Williams
- Added Motion to Exclude Fingerprint Evidence Under Frye
- Added Frye v. United States
- Added Enroll in our Moodle course
- Edited Read the Course Syllabus
January 8th, 2022
- Removed Fingerprints and Race from Advanced Evidence Spring 2022
January 7th, 2022
- Edited Writing Reflection #1
- Added The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
- Added Excerpt from Radically Reimagining Forensic Evidence
- Added Read the Course Syllabus
- Added Fingerprints and Race
- Added Colonial Beginnings of Fingerprints
- Added OPTIONAL: A Tale of Two Dauberts: Discriminatory Effects of Scientific Reliability Screening
- Added Opinion: I was wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition. Why are police allowed to use it?
- Added 20 second quote from Chris Fabricant
January 6th, 2022
- Removed Ten Year Anniversary of Landmark Report on Forensic Evidence from Advanced Evidence Spring 2022
- Added Writing Reflection #2
- Added Cognitive bias in forensic pathology decisions
- Added With George Floyd, a Raging Debate Over Bias in the Science of Death
- Added Writing Reflection #1
- Casebook first published.

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