While they remain a singularly popular pop-culture genre, the police and court procedurals that draw the eyes and attention of television viewers on a daily basis have, unfortunately, given most ...

Trial lawyers, especially defense lawyers in the pharmaceutical and medical device arena, strive to ensure that “junk science” stays out of the courtroom. Unfortunately, that is often wishful thinking ...

Here, we highlight a few “worst of the worst” offenders when it comes to junk science. We lead with a decision from years past—likely familiar to the reader, as the issue (whether vaccines can cause ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate’s legal ...

Hailed decades ago as a cutting-edge forensic tool, bite-mark evidence has since led to the wrongful convictions and indictments of more than two dozen people across the country, including an innocent ...

Robert Roberson speaks to Lester Holt. It’s a convenient diagnosis for prosecutors, because it provides motive (the “vigorous” shaking implies anger at the child), cause of death (vigorous shaking), ...

Brian Wharton, the lead detective who testified for the prosecution at trial but now believes that Robert Roberson is innocent, speaks during a news conference in front of the Anderson County ...

Once rubbish science becomes accepted, weeding it out of the legal system is extremely difficult.