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04-19-2015, 05:33 AM
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FBI admits that ALL its forensic experts exaggerated hair evidence at every criminal trial for nearly 20 years
By Wills Robinson
The FBI and Justice Department have admitted forensic examiners from a DNA unit gave flawed evidence at nearly all United States criminal trials spanning 20 years.
It has been reported that 26 employees in the agency's microscopic hair comparison laboratory overstated forensic matches so they favored prosecutors in the 1980s and 1990s.
Research involving the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project say that 95 per cent of 268 trials reviewed had been impacted.
The Washington Post reported that of the 200 convictions affected, 32 defendants were sentenced to death - 14 of which have since been executed or died behind bars.
Those who are still alive have been sent letters explaining the errors and how they can used further DNA testing to prove the evidence.
The mistakes do not automatically prove the convict's innocence.
Continued... (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3045293/FBI-Justice-Department-admit-forensic-experts-gave-flawed-evidence-nearly-criminal-trials-20-years.html)
FBI admits that ALL its forensic experts exaggerated hair evidence at every criminal trial for nearly 20 years
By Wills Robinson
The FBI and Justice Department have admitted forensic examiners from a DNA unit gave flawed evidence at nearly all United States criminal trials spanning 20 years.
It has been reported that 26 employees in the agency's microscopic hair comparison laboratory overstated forensic matches so they favored prosecutors in the 1980s and 1990s.
Research involving the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project say that 95 per cent of 268 trials reviewed had been impacted.
The Washington Post reported that of the 200 convictions affected, 32 defendants were sentenced to death - 14 of which have since been executed or died behind bars.
Those who are still alive have been sent letters explaining the errors and how they can used further DNA testing to prove the evidence.
The mistakes do not automatically prove the convict's innocence.
Continued... (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3045293/FBI-Justice-Department-admit-forensic-experts-gave-flawed-evidence-nearly-criminal-trials-20-years.html)