Cognitive Bias in Forensic Experts: How to Minimize It
The file arrives. 78 documents, 3 interrogation transcripts, the investigative report, photographs, a prior criminal record, 2 press clippings. Someone has already helpfully highlighted…
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QUIT: Done With the Role, Not With the Work
A reckoning with the German justice system after twenty-five years as a court-appointed forensic expert. On predictable findings, dangerous cases, the body that finally…
How Reliable Is a Fingerprint? The Science, the Technology, the Limits, and What No One Explains Clearly Enough in a Courtroom
Fingerprint evidence is real and its biological foundations are sound. But the gap between what fingerprint evidence can legitimately claim and what it is…
The Shadow of Truth: The Invisible Risks of Probability in the Courtroom
Why the gap between 99.9% and 100% has imprisoned innocent people, and what it means to say the uncomfortable truth in a courtroom built…
That was it, right? – ‘very likely’ in percentage terms
Given the legal questions we often face, especially regarding the quantification of "very likely" in percentages, I would like to explain why I, as…