Sessions orders Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission, suspend review policy

[douglas9]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will end a Justice Department partnership with independent scientists to raise forensic science standards and has suspended an expanded review of FBI testimony across several techniques that have come under question, saying a new strategy will be set by an in-house team of law enforcement advisers.

In a statement Monday, Sessions said he would not renew the National Commission on Forensic Science, a roughly 30-member advisory panel of scientists, judges, crime lab leaders, prosecutors and defense lawyers chartered by the Obama administration in 2013.

A path to meet needs of overburdened crime labs will be set by a yet-to-be-named senior forensic adviser and an internal department crime task force, Sessions’s statement said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/sessions-orders-justice-dept-to-end-forensic-science-commission-suspend-review-policy/2017/04/10/2dada0ca-1c96-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.df5e22a34333

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Yes, because heaven forfend

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We make sure we're sending people to prison based upon reliable scientific evidence.

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. Did you mean "heaven forbid"? n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

6. I meant "forfend"

Damn ipad.

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. My damned iPad also gives me trouble.

[Javaman]

2. the forensic science standard will now be replaced by the "bust heads" standards. nt

[Duppers]

3. WTF? K&R

[Nitram]

4. Here they go again, removing science and substituting right wing gut feelings.

Before you know it they'll be finding defendants guilty by throwing them in a pond to see if they float.

[Judi Lynn]

7. So wrong, no one could have expected this to happen. n/t