Two reports in recent days involving forensic evidence disputes:
Cardiologist: FenPhen Trust Conspired To Destroy Her
A physician who was named as a defendant by the Settlement Trustee in the Fen-Phen cases, and accused of falsifying numerous echocardiograms, has filed a counterclaim alleging that:
Specific cases that she had identified as showing a compensable injury are now being used by the trust to train its examiners to reject legitimate claims, despite the fact that the trust's own overreads confirmed them as legitimate.
The dispute arises from an obsolete and unscientific definition of "moderate mitral regurgitation" as used in the Settlement Agreement. She alleges that she is being targeted because she followed the definition used in the Agreement. (Source: LexisOne)
Dog-handler pleads guilty
Woman admits in Detroit court to planting bones at crimes scenes across Michigan, U.S
An internationally known handler of a cadaver dog admitted she planted bones and other phony evidence at crime scenes across Michigan and Ohio. Sandra Marie Anderson of Sanford and her Doberman-German short-hair dog, Eagle, participated in hundreds of searches, including at the World Trade Center after September 11 and at mass graves in Bosnia and Panama. Anderson, 43, searched dozens of historical sites — from a Nebraska Native American burial ground to a Mackinac Island golf course, hunting for remains of soldiers killed in 1812.
But she has admitted she planted evidence for Eagle to find in at least a half-dozen cases. Lawyers for Azizul Islam of Plymouth, convicted in the 1999 murder and dismembering of his wife, have asked for a new trial based on the disclosure.
(Source: Detroit News)
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