by Carole Chaski | Aug 3, 2012 | author identification, Daubert standards, expert witness, forensic linguistics, forensic science, LSA Institute Summer 2013, NAS Report
The National Academy of Sciences allows free pdf downloads of many of its publications. Several of these are listed at www.LinguisticEvidence.org website under Research and Publications: Essential Documents. A best seller from the National Academies Press is the NAS...
by Carole Chaski | Jul 31, 2012 | Daubert standards, forensic science, Frye standard, legal evidence, NAS Report
Apparently I am not the only person who sees forensic linguistics as dangerously like the forensic sciences deemed in need of science by the NAS Report. Just a week or two ago, The New Yorker published an article by Jack Hitt, a comedian (no kidding) and reporter. In...
by Carole Chaski | Jul 28, 2012 | Daubert standards, expert witness, forensic science, Frye standard, NAS Report
Forensic linguistics is a perfect example of the three loopholes that the NAS Report doesn’t address. (1) A lot of judges, prosecutors, defense and plaintiff attorneys approach linguistic issues (such as who authored the blog post? is this a real threat letter?)...
by Carole Chaski | Jul 28, 2012 | expert witness, forensic science, legal evidence, NAS Report, Uncategorized
Senator Leahy is spearheading a legislative movement to improve forensic science as scientific evidence, and I am cheering at his efforts (for an update on his efforts, see http://public.cq.com/docs/weeklyreport/weeklyreport-000004132586.html uh oh –what if...
