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Review of: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
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Public Beliefs About the Accuracy and Importance of Forensic Evidence in the United States
TL;DR: The authors found that individuals in the United States hold a pessimistic view of the forensic science investigation process, believing that an error can occur about half of the time at each stage of the process.
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Expert for Whom? Court-Appointed Versus Party-Appointed Experts
TL;DR: Differences in judges' attitudes between court-appointed and party-appointed forensic psychiatric expert evidence, including who commissioned the report and how this impacted on the judges' perception of the evidence presented, are investigated.
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Judging experts: Australian magistrates' evaluations of expert opinion quality.
TL;DR: It is suggested that magistrates can differentiate between high- and low-quality expert opinions, but it is unclear whether the information they need for the task is actually available for use during trials.
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Assessing the reliability and validity of forensic science – an industry perspective
TL;DR: The Australian and international communities are collectively working towards gathering evidence towards demonstrable validity, with important progress being made in recent years, however, such efforts require substantial resourcing and coordination to continue or accelerate these critical endeavours.
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The Conception of Implementation of Vision for European Forensic Science 2020 in Lithuania
TL;DR: Main ideas of the project of the conception of implementation of the vision for European Forensic Science 2020 of EU Council are presented and its legal background, as well as prospects of and challenges for its implementation in Lithuania and the EU are analyzed.