tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909488748140942076.post408900880975305767..comments2024-03-20T18:05:50.971+13:00Comments on NOSTALGIA-NZ: Special agent X in the Lundy case.Nostalgia-NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048029433699816931noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909488748140942076.post-36210454446875618072016-04-10T09:30:11.171+12:002016-04-10T09:30:11.171+12:00Footnote to Professor Halkides comment above:
...Footnote to Professor Halkides comment above:<br /><br />'I would not have accepted IHC evidence in a courtroom. It is a diagnostic science that got transplanted into forensics.'<br /><br />I can agree with his conclusion but don't understand how the trial might have gone ahead after the Court of Appeal ruled the evidence admissible. The only alternatives might be that Counsel said they could not proceed, or alternatively went to the Supreme Court. I suppose finally they could have simply rejected it in front of the Jury, there are and have been certain counsel in NZ that would have considered do that though in this case counsel may have decided that the Crown witness who said the spinal cell material was animal was enough.<br /><br />I don't think Chris or Geoff Levick agree with my suggestion of parallel tests being done because they believe it gives credibility to test procedures that have no place in Forensic Science. I don't disagree with that. But I think it's highly likely that the parallel tests could prove their position to be 100% correct that the method is flawed, Miller's tests were unreliable but also, and equally importantly that Miller's tests were not within a critical forensic pathway - right back from the time of the handling of Lundy's shirt and Miller's 2nd 'parallel' tests to confirm his conclusions were also both flawed and beyond forensic testing control guidelines.<br /><br />Anybody want to bet they weren't? Need a load of money to have the tests done but I think the Government should fund the tests. At the moment Lundy can be seen to be in prison because of novel testing techniques not accepted by the forensic community at large - that becomes a responsibility of The Crown to placate public concerns. They've spent money paying informers. for bogus science such as smelling stomach contents to determine times of death, to prove a computer was fiddled with only to concede that it wasn't - fairness would dictate that funding was made available for tests independent of Miller with his lack of Forensic acceptance and credibility because a man is likely to be in prison as the result Quakery science. Nostalgia-NZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17048029433699816931noreply@blogger.com