7/8/10 (KS): Bus Had Design Flaws, Says Expert The Cat Tracker bus that 27-year-old John Green was riding when his head struck an overpass had several design features that were unsafe, according to expert testimony in the second day of a civil trial stemming from the fatal accident in 2006.

6/20/10 (NJ): NJ Courts Require Stricter Standards For Experts Says Report It's often the first question police ask when arriving at the scene of a crime: Did anyone see who did it? That question has been the linchpin of criminal prosecutions for hundreds of years. But experts say eyewitness identifications during police lineups are notoriously unreliable and a leading cause of wrongful convictions. The mind plays tricks, witnesses can feel pressured to deliver the ID on a suspect, and mistakes just happen.

6/18/10 (TN): Defense Entomologist's Evidence Refuted by Prosecution An expert entomologist for the defense has testified that he found several fatal flaws in the prosecution's case in relation to the time of death findings of Adam and Samantha Chrismer. Dr. Neal Haskell, a forensics specialist himself, said that the conclusions made by Dr. Erin Watson were incorrect on four different points.

6/16/10 (FLA): Expert Appraisers Likely To Be Involved in BP Claims The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill has affected countless small and large businesses operating in the coastal Gulf State regions. If you own a business that has suffered a loss due to the rupture and release of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, then you may have a claim to present to British Petroleum as well as other insurance and emergency loan organizations. The greater your company's financial loss, the more important it is to provide legal, court-approved documentation outlining the value of your business.

6/15/10 (CA): Prosecutors Should Have Disclosed Experts' Misconduct San Francisco prosecutors are inviting defense attorneys to challenge more than 500 convictions that were based in part on the work of two expert witnesses - the former technician at the heart of the police drug lab scandal and a toxicology supervisor who vouched for tests in her previous job that she hadn't performed.

6/10/10 (GER): Demjanjuk Expert: ID Card Photo Was Removed A former U.S. Secret Service forensics expert has testified that the photo on a Nazi-issued identity card being used by prosecutors against John Demjanjuk, which the defense argues is a fake, appears to have been removed and later reattached.