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.
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lmao once again the government that wants us to trust them to safeguard us appears to be the entity most likely to harm and destroy us! imagine that!
But hey give them a chance ok?
A lot of the fault lies with what they are graduating from public law schools in the past 20 years. The majority of these "defense attorneys" have never even seen a trial until they find themselves a participant in one.
There is no such thing as a "match" when it comes to "microscopic" anything. The best that can be said is it's "consistent with.
On the other side, a prosecutor should know better. It's not their job to convict at any and all costs but to see that justice is served.
Any means to an end. Still goes on.
WTH do defense lawyers have to do with flawed science?
Just more 'lying cop' story to me.
8:05-A good defense attorney has made themselves familiar with all aspects of forensics and would have called out the FBI (and the prosecution) on this every time they tried to pull it off thus regulating the agency in an unconventional way.
It is their job, you know but plea bargaining is a much easier route so injustices like this proliferate when there are a lack of checks and balances.
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