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How to Fix a Drug Scandal is an American true crime documentary miniseries that was released on Netflix on April 1, 2020. [1] It was produced by documentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr and examined the roles of two forensic chemists at different laboratories in Massachusetts, Sonja Farak and Annie Dookhan, who tampered with evidence and falsified drug certificates of defendants; and the impact ...
Frederick Salem Zain (April 14, 1951 – December 2, 2002) [1] [2] was an American forensic laboratory technician in West Virginia and Bexar County, Texas, who falsified serology [3] results to obtain convictions.
Richard Pryde Boggs (May 15, 1933 – March 6, 2003) was a Californian neurologist who was sentenced to life in prison in 1990 for his part in a scheme that involved murdering a man and giving the victim another man's identity in order to collect on a $1.5 million life insurance policy.
The calls started last November. Speaking in Spanish, a representative from New Century Solutions in Lake Forest, Calif., pitched Jose Chirino to purchase a forensic loan audit. For $2,995, the ...
Dissecting scissors: for sharp cutting Speculum: for vaginal and rectal examinations Non-absorbable sutures: usually nylon to close the body cavities and sutures it Postmortem needles: large thick needles for suturing the skin after an autopsy to return the body to a natural looking state to prepare it for burial Medical syringes: for fluid ...
A forensic document examiner is intimately linked to the legal system as a forensic scientist. Forensic science is the application of science to address issues under consideration in the legal system. FDEs examine items (documents) that form part of a case that may or may not come before a court of law.
Heaton was put on trial in 1992. DNA testing of the semen sample taken from Naab's body, conducted by Dr. Robert Allen, was compared to the DNA of Heaton, concluding that it was a match, and that the chances of the DNA matching a white male other than Heaton were 1 in 52,600. [1]
A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries gave examples of policy definitions. In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention[al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention[al] distortion of the ...