10/10/09 (FLA): Expert Gets Auctioneer Off The Hook The auctioneer wasn't at fault for a chaotic auction that failed to sell a bankrupt Fort Lauderdale marina last year, a federal judge has ruled, following the testimony of an expert witness.

10/02/09 (UK): Violent Behaviour Linked To Candy Children who eat large amounts of candy and chocolate are more likely to be violent in later life, according to latest research.

19/09/09 (TX): The Science of Scent. Just Voodoo? A Texas based pressure group has derided the practice of 'scent identification' whereby trained dogs can pick out suspects in a line up. They say the practice is based on faulty science and has led to a number of wrongful convictions.

9/14/09 (ITA): Expert Doubts DNA Evidence In Knox Trial DNA evidence at the center of a murder trial in Italy of an American student accused of killing her roommate is unreliable, according to a forensic expert testifying for the defense.

9/1/09 (Online): The Bombing of Pan Am 103: Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle Thought provoking online article suggesting that the recent decision to release Al-Megrahi was due to recognition by the Scots that his appeal was bound to succeed.

8/20/09 (Aus): Experts To Do Battle In Oz P2P Copyright Case Representing a number of different movie studios, AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) lodged a copyright infringement case against iiNet last November, claiming the company allowed its users to pirate films through BitTorrent and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Now opposing experts are likely to be involved.

8/18/09 (DC): Death Row Inmate Wins Hearing The Supreme Court has taken the rare step of ordering a federal judge to consider the innocence claims of condemned Georgia prisoner Troy Anthony Davis, who has mounted a global campaign to declare he was wrongfully convicted of murder and barred by federal law from presenting the evidence that would prove it.

8/15/09 (CA): Expert Evidence Helped Wrongful Conviction Locked up for an armed robbery he didn't do, East San Jose resident Jeffrey Rodriguez spent five years dodging violent prison inmates and praying to be rescued.

8/14/09 (GA): The Internet As A Weapon of Jihad An Atlanta jury has found a 23-year-old man guilty of aiding terrorist groups after a trial that explored a subculture of youthful extremists who used the Internet to plot attacks and form a loose network connecting North America, Europe and South Asia.