FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades

crimsonaudio · Apr 23, 2015

This is inexcusable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

Reviews of 342 defendants’ convictions were completed as of early March, the NACDL and Innocence Project reported. In addition to the 268 trials in which FBI hair evidence was used against defendants, the review found cases in which defendants pleaded guilty, FBI examiners did not testify, did not assert a match or gave exculpatory testimony.

When such cases are included, by the FBI’s count examiners made statements exceeding the limits of science in about 90 percent of testimonies, including 34 death-penalty cases.

Tidewater · Apr 23, 2015

crimsonaudio said:
This is inexcusable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

Wow. I guess it is very difficult to resist the temptation to avoid crossing the line between wanting to help convict the guilty and manufacturing the evidence (or suppressing exculpatory evidence).
Bad. Very bad.

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