R Street has been researching the issue of legal system abuse for several years. In particular, we have been analyzing the drivers of unmerited, or frivolous litigation that leads to large courtroom ...

Normal dissociative processes aid us in imaginative creativity, but they also promote cognitive error—in criminal justice, ...

In the deepfake era, proving digital evidence is real requires experts public defenders cannot afford. Their indigent clients ...

New court filings in Utah’s case against Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s murder, gave way to widespread claims ...

PolitiFact spoke to forensic science and criminology experts who said an "inconclusive" finding on a bullet fragment like this is not uncommon, and it does not rule out that the weapon used in Kirk’s ...

How many tiny pieces of plastic are currently inside your body? A series of headline-grabbing studies in the last few years have claimed to have found microplastics throughout human bodies—inside ...

Dr. Henry C. Lee, the pioneering forensic scientist whose work on high profile criminal cases from Connecticut to California ...

As a physician who has spent decades caring for patients and later had the privilege of serving as Secretary of Health and Human Services, I have seen firsthand how fragile medical progress can be.

Society tells children that if someone has hurt them, they should tell a trusted adult. But the reality is often not that simple. In 34% of child sexual abuse cases reported to law enforcement, the ...

A panel on modern expert testimony explored how Daubert issues become more complex on appeal due to incomplete records and limited trial findings. Speakers highlighted challenges in reviewing ...

Josh Burns and Andrew Roark, who have been convicted and later exonerated of crimes related to “shaken baby syndrome,” which is now largely considered junk science, will launch a podcast, Unshaken ...

A team of independent forensic scientists are calling for a fresh investigation into the death of Kurt Cobain after an “exhaustive” look at the late rocker’s autopsy led them to believe one or more ...