Hauser, Christine. “Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/white-sox-groundskeeper.html.
The article titled “Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back” by Christine Hauser details the story of Nevest Coleman. He was a groundskeeper at the White Sox’s stadium at 25 before being convicted of rape murder of a young women. After 23 years behind bars new DNA evidence has come to light which has cleared him of the rape and murder. The evidence which came up was allegations of police misconduct and semen samples collected from the body and clothing of the victim. When the DNA from the semen did not match Mr. Coleman's DNA, he was released
This article does contain relevance to society today. The city of Chicago is going back and is willing to overturn past convictions and make sure they get it right with the new technology being used to clear innocent people.
This article was well written and have a good insight to the process behind proving innocence in old cases where new technology is being used.
5 comments:
Alexander Plaza
Mr.Ippolito
4/11/18
Forensics Comment
Hauser, Christine. “Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/white-sox-groundskeeper.html.
Spencer, I read your review of Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back” by Christine Hauser and I thought that you did a decent job. I thought that you did a decent job with making your summary of the article brief yet informative. I was not confused about your topic. This is good for the readers since it creates a understanding of the subject matter for your review. Also, I like that your analysis is relevant to society today. Finally, I like the way you look at a the use of forensic science to have a positive effect.
Although your article was good, there are some things that you could improve on. First, I could be helpful if you added some expert quotes from the article. It would be useful in understanding the article. Also, I believe that you could add more detail to your summary to make the review more clear.
Overall, I enjoyed your review. It’s interesting to see forensic science being applied to solve cases from long ago.
Andrew Rotchford
Current Event 21
Augustine, Seth. “Long Island Woman Who Vanished 50 Years Ago Dug up From Cop Boyfriend's Basement.” Forensic Magazine, Forensic Magazine, 11 apr, www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/04/long-island-woman-who-vanished-50-years-ago-dug-cop-boyfriends-basement.
The article this week that I chose to read “Long Island Woman Who Vanished 50 Years Ago Dug up From Cop Boyfriend’s Basement” written by Seth Augustine by Forensics Magazine. In 1966 about 50 years ago, Louise Pietrewicz went to her bank and took out all of the money out of her account and disappeared. She left behind the purse and was trying to get out of a terrible marriage, The Cold Case sitting in a file room for 51 years until a local tip came up from a woman who was having affair with Louise's husband. The tip ended up leaving investigators to use sonar waves in the ground where they found a skull. “Cold cases are always, always in play. We’re always looking at information we obtain.” Police had tried to dig up the residence in 2013, but did not find anything. After the investigators dug up the skeleton, forensic scientist were able to connect the DNA to Louise. The tip made by The Mistress of her husband would end up helping the case, Louise's husband died in 1982 who was the lead suspect.
This is a absolutely reflection of how modern forensic science has helped the past , cold cases like this that have been sitting in a file cabinet for 51 years are finally being able to be solved because of technology today. Louise is murder was found with top of the line sonar equipment. Showing there are many ways to use modern technology to help the past . More and more cases like these are going to be solved in modern day, finally after many years some justice can be served.
The author did a good job with the article, the one thing to critique him about is his information used from the case. He talks about how she disappeared and how the body was found but other things have been left out. The article was very informative but I would have appreciated more info about the case.
Current Event 22
Lily Monahan
4/18/18
Hauser, Christine. “Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/white-sox-groundskeeper.htm.
Spencer Thomas reviewed the article “Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back.” The article review was very informative and well written, which made it easy to understand. He was able to make the article short but still include all the information . Spencer also did a great job analyzing this article and relating it back to forensics.
Two things that could have made this review better were more quotes from the srtice and more detail in the general summary .
I thought spencers review was interesting to read because it was another example of how new scientific advances are helping to solve cases from the past.
YiFei Wu
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
Current Event 22
4/19/2018
Hauser, Christine. “Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/white-sox-groundskeeper.htm.
For this current Forensics related Events, I read Spencer’s review of the New York Times article, “Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back.” He did a great job on summarizing and commenting in this article. He also did a really great job on giving the audiences detail about the original articles. “After 23 years behind bars new DNA evidence has come to light which has cleared him of the rape and murder. The evidence which came up was allegations of police misconduct and semen samples collected from the body and clothing of the victim. When the DNA from the semen did not match Mr. Coleman's DNA, he was released .” This quote shows how detailed it is. Second, I like the fact that he explained how the forensic technology was used in this case. Third, his flow and logic of her comment is really good, which make the audiences easy to follow.
Spencer had some areas to improve as well. First, in my opinion, he can dig deeper into the DNA identification technology. Second, he can expand his comment more, the comment seems a little short.
This article is very interesting for me whereas how DNA could be used as well as how it can wrongfully put a person in prison for 23 years.
The review of ““Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, White Sox Employee Gets His Job Back.” is a decent explanation of a forensic science current event. The paragraph explains how a man convicted of rape and murder was released from jail. These details were obtained using forensic science. This is the main reason why I chose this article.
This article has some okay insight but there is lack academic tone. And, I still have so many questions about the situation. For instance, how did they obtain the evidence. What type of evidence led to this conclusion. Was it Semen, Saliva or hair Etc? Had a better explanation of why and how this information came abouts the article could have been more successful.
Nevertheless, this unnamed author provided the readers with good information on how important DNA evidence is. I felt an obligation to read this article because my love for baseball. I also like that you are innocent until proven guilty. After reading this article, I have a better understanding about how a man was deemed innocent because of DNA.
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