Forensic scientists found traces of petrol on the Philpotts' clothing and similar results for Mosley.
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IAI, based in Minnesota, is an organisation of forensic scientists from around the world.
In 2005, Texas established a government commission to investigate allegations of error and misconduct by forensic scientists.
Forensic scientists told the High Court in Edinburgh that Zoe's corpse could have been burning away for up to seven hours.
In November 2008 at Leeds Crown Court jurors were told that forensic scientists considered the kidnapped youngster Shannon Matthews had been drugged.
Just how the judge's conclusion will affect Lee and his career as one of the country's most well-known forensic scientists is unclear.
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Forensic scientists told the inquest it appeared Mrs Philpotts died in a flash fire after her badly burned body was found near a petrol can.
As it turns out, the patent-pending analytical algorithms used in their system are based on decades of prior work by linguists, forensic scientists, anthropologists and intelligence agencies.
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Moreover, as forensic scientists have a vested interest in the outcome, it would be better if academic scientists could be persuaded to take over research into their techniques.
Some have become engineers, forensic scientists, auditors, and IT specialists.
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Using sterile swab kits, forensic scientists in cases similar to the one near Annecy would be expected to take samples from the car door handles, the steering wheel, the mirrors.
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Although Lesley's clothes had been destroyed in 1985, a few fibres had been preserved attached to strips of adhesive tape from which forensic scientists were able to extract samples of the killer's bodily fluids.
The court heard marks which could have been caused by clothing were found under Nolan's black cab although forensic scientists were unable to say how Mr Aryaei Nekoo might have come to be under the wheels.
Failures in the Lawrence case investigation had previously "shamed" police, he said, but they could now be commended for their work, as could the forensic scientists involved in obtaining the evidence which allowed the prosecution of Dobson and Norris to take place.
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According to Norah Rudin, a forensic-DNA consultant in Mountain View, California, forensic scientists are beginning to accept that cognitive bias exists, but there is still a lot of resistance to the idea, because examiners take the criticism personally and feel they are being accused of doing bad science.
In the Kennewick Man case, Babbitt stopped scientists from doing forensic work on the skeletal remains of a 9, 000-year-old man found in Oregon.
"The human head had a light brown colour, open mouth and partially closed eyes, " said the scientists, led by forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier.
Scientists have developed a forensic test that can predict both the hair and eye colour of a possible suspect using DNA left at a crime scene.
Scientists also admitted in court that forensic tests which were originally said to confirm two of the six had been handling explosives could have produced the same results from handling cigarettes.
It was not until 1999 that the Forensic Science Service (FSS) developed technology to enable its scientists to find a full DNA profile of Marion's killer.
The FSS was apparently applying the new LCN technique in a different way, meaning its scientists may have missed DNA evidence that other private forensic laboratories could have identified.
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