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Re: IAAI Article
Posted by:
J L Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: August 05, 2020 03:26PM
I am not suggesting a person does not have the right to disagree with the committee’s action. The facts one uses to disagree should be verifiable. The author said there will be a reduction in the classification information that will be available to the public. Since the public fire investigator is not classifying a majority of the fires, I do not see how there can be a great reduction in the data available to the public. It was said this could cause confusion with the jury and/or the judge. I can find no justification for that conclusion because there finding are not based on a one word classification. The article said because the classification is no longer in 921 the court may not recognize it because of the lack of science. Classifications were never based on science. There is an established recognized methodology through NIFRS that can support the classification by a public investigator.
Maybe what go me about the article is that it was more of an op-ed than it was a scientific article.
Jim Mazerat
Forensic Investigations Group