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FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades

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#1 ·
"The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite
FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence
against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory's microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic
matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so
far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence
Project, which are assisting the government with the country's largest post-conviction review of
questioned forensic evidence.

The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or
died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after
the review of the first 200 convictions.

The FBI errors alone do not mean there was not other evidence of a convict's guilt. Defendants and
federal and state prosecutors in 46 states and the District are being notified to determine
whether there are grounds for appeals. Four defendants were previously exonerated."

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html
 
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#3 ·
That was my very first thought as well.
 
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