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19 August, 20153 June, 2015

Poor oversight at crime labs reflects our contempt for justice

A person leaning over a microscope
Posted in commentary, politics by s.e. smith

Have you heard the story of Annie Dookhan? She used to be a state chemist in Massachusetts, responsible for testing over 40,000 samples over the course of her career. Her coworkers noted that it was physically impossible for her to test so many samples, that she misrepresented herself on the witness stand, that she falsified […]

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13 October, 20102 September, 2010

Social Justice Matters: The High Price of Vengeance

Posted in politics by s.e. smith

The United States is one of the last nations in the world to continue using the death penalty. I am strongly opposed to the death penalty, for a whole variety of reasons, and I could write a post about wrongful convictions, about the inhumanity of death row, about conditions in US prisons, about whether we […]

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