Criminal Cases
Oregon Case Puts Reliability of Science Itself on Trial
June 21, 2009, 10:30AM
"Bullet lead analysis" viewed as discredited evidence
Now Cannon and his legal team are finalizing his claim of "actual innocence" for next month's hearing in Marion County Circuit Court. They will present new evidence intended to show he was convicted primarily on faulty and discredited "junk science" called bullet lead analysis -- evidence so unreliable it has been abandoned by the FBI...........click here to read more
Substitute Teacher's Sex-abuse Conviction Reversed
July 18, 2012
By Helen Jung | hjung@oregonian.com
The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed the 2009 conviction of a substitute teacher who was found guilty of sex abuse despite no physical evidence, no witnesses and a police officer's admitted failures to follow investigative protocols…to read more
Former Salem Officer Sees Charges Dropped
Jul-09-2007
(SALEM, Ore.) - Charges of rape and sex abuse have been dropped against a former Salem Police officer. 39-year old Sterling Alexander had been charged in three separate cases............. click here to read more