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FBI admits flawed lab analyses taint hundreds of convictions

Roger-Rabbit-icon1THIS IS SHOCKING: “Before DNA testing …, the FBI relied heavily on visual analysis of evidence, sometimes building cases on microscopic analysis of hair. But in 2012, … the Washington Post reported that flawed forensic hair matches might have led to the convictions of hundreds of innocent people. In a full report coming out Monday, the Innocence Project and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers will say that from the 1970s through 1999, 25 of 29 FBI forensic examiners had errors in their testimony … [and] of 18 executions, 12 of them had errors in either testimony or lab reports,” CBS News reported Sunday night.

Why??? Were cops and prosecutors so eager to “solve” cases they threw caution to the winds? Did they care whether they sent innocent people to prison or death row? And what does society owe wrongly convicted people who had the best years of their lives stolen from them by dishonest or incompetent police work?


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