A failure of analysis? Critics blast firm's re-creation of Menendez shootings
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Observers have criticized the work of Failure Analysis Associates in recreating the crime scenario of Jose and Kitty Menendez' murder by their children Lyle and Erik. The firm worked for prosecutors in the second trial, using computer imaging techniques in their recreation and helping prove to the jury that the parents sustained head shots, execution style, and then leg shots so that the murders would look like a mob hit. Forensic experts say such a detailed recreation is impossible and that the second trial shows the danger of letting an engineering firm do forensic work.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1996
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A run for the bench; the taint of big money in judicial elections is moving reformers to find a middle ground between free-spending campaigns and merit selection
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Efforts to reform judicial selection are targeting an area between merit selection and elections rather than viewing the matter as an either/or proposition. This kind of solution has taken form as a challenge to the 1976 US Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Vallejo, invalidating limits on campaign spending, imposing limits on lawyer contributions, and requiring that judges recuse themselves from cases in which a lawyer or party has contributed a certain amount to the campaign.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1998
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