Scorched Earth: What the Drach Trial Showed Me
An expert witness draws the line he will no longer cross after almost 2 decades of loyal service to the German criminal courts. A…
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What 99.72 Percent Really Mean: A Forensic Practitioner on the Discipline of Identifying the Living from Images
A forensic practitioner on Schwarzfischer, ACE-V, and AGIB: why 99.72 percent is not certainty, what the Frankfurt Airport calculation reveals, and when an expert…
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…
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…