The American justice system is broken
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.
“These findings are appalling and chilling in their indictment of our criminal justice system, not only for potentially innocent defendants who have been wrongly imprisoned and even executed, but for prosecutors who have relied on fabricated and false evidence despite their intentions to faithfully enforce the law,” Blumenthal said.
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Any whites?
ReplyDeletePerjury. Tampering with evidence.
ReplyDeleteConspiracy. Falsification of evidence.
You and I go to PRISON. 32 people went to their deaths at the hands of the State. Any of those FBI guys going to do any time???? The worst that will happen to them is a paper cut from the morning newspaper.
NEVER think that it couldn't happen to YOU or one of your children.
Keep cheering.
Yeah. The "whites" were the ones fabricating evidence, perjuring themselves, and putting people in prison.
ReplyDeleteNot a thug robbing you of your wallet, of course, but then again, would you rather lose your wallet, or 30 years of your life?
And who, between the perpetrators of those two crimes, is the biggest thug?
One hair. And the victim even said he didn't even CLOSELY resemble her attacker, but the guy got 30 years!! THIRTY F'ing YEARS!
So much for you pencil neck goot ci-di-zens, who think if you're not doing anything wrong you don't have to worry.
Until the State's Attorney decides he needs a conviction and SOMEBODY is going to jail.
Bring in the FBI!!!
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