Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While they remain a singularly popular pop-culture genre, the police and court procedurals that draw the eyes and attention of ...

A criminalist holds a rape kit at the LAPD’s crime lab at the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center in Los Angeles. Photo: Getty Images This is an excerpt from The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate’s legal ...

Once rubbish science becomes accepted, weeding it out of the legal system is extremely difficult.

It's Halloween. So what could be scarier than a state throwing a person in prison for arson when the fire was accidental? Executing him. That's the lesson of a report released Friday by the Texas ...

Texas’ 2013 law that allows for new trials in cases with flawed scientific evidence was pioneering. But the state’s highest criminal court has rejected most of those challenges. Robert Roberson seeks ...