In both of those cases, Hayne (and his sidekick, the disgraced, self-proclaimed "bite mark expert" Michael West) gave testimony that was critical to convicting the men of killing the daughters of their girlfriends.
Over the years, West broadened his areas of claimed expertise, testifying in at least 10 states as a wound pattern expert, a trace metals expert, a gun shot residue expert, a gunshot reconstruction expert, a crime scene investigator, a blood spatter expert, a "tool mark" expert, a fingernail scratch expert and an expert in "liquid splash patterns".
As the pace of overturned convictions increases, however, the courts are growing more skeptical of the absolute conclusions drawn by bite-mark experts and, in turn, are becoming more receptive when defense lawyers rebut the analysis.
The original police investigation into Mabry's murder hinged on the forensic analysis of Steven Hayne, a longtime Mississippi medical examiner, and Michael West, a dentist and self-proclaimed bite-mark expert.
To remove a black mark, the experts agreed that the damaged area needs to be stripped of its finish so it can be treated with oxalic acid, a wood bleaching agent.
The wealthy county is the first region in Southern California to hit that mark, but experts largely dismissed talk of a new housing bubble.
Both endowments have acting chairwomen, Joan Shigekawa at arts and Carole Watson at humanities, who have drawn high marks, but experts say even the most able manager cannot replace a permanent chief who has the president and Congress's seal of approval.
Overall, the transition won high marks from expert observers: "There is no indication that the new king or his successors will not have the continuing support of Saudi technocrats, Saudi Arabia's educated elite, and Saudi Arabia's business leaders," said Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
The centers of the fovea and the OD in each image were marked by expert graders as the ground truth.
The actors, breathless yet precise, hit their marks like expert marksmen.
Statistical test outcomes of the modified Turing Test suggested that geographic information systems and remote sensing map experts found marked pattern similarities between real and synthesis maps, resulting in challenges in identifying real maps from synthetic ones.
