The Crime Lab in the Age of the Genetic Panopticon

Published: 2017 | By: Brandon Garrett

Review of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado, Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic …

Automatic Matching of Bullet Land Impressions

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Firearms and Toolmarks

Published: 2017 | By: Eric Hare

In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a report questioning the scientific validity of many forensic methods including firearm …

“Brief of Amici Curiae Brandon L. Garrett and 35 Scientists, Statisticians, Law and Science Scholars, and Practitioners, People v. Genrich, No. 2016CA651”

Published: 2017 | By: Brandon Garrett

In this case, a toolmark “expert” testified against James Genrich by assuring the jury that several of Genrich’s tools made …

Constitutional Regulation of Forensic Evidence

Published: 2018 | By: Brandon Garrett

In this Essay, I describe how despite decades of missed opportunities to adequately regulate forensics, in recent rulings the Supreme …

Forensics and Fallibility: Comparing the Views of Lawyers and Judges

Type: Publication Research Area(s):

Published: 2016 | By: Brandon Garrett

Is there a CSI effect for lawyers? Forensic evidence plays an increasingly prominent role in criminal practice, leading some to …