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FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades

Date: April 18, 2015

Author: Spencer S. Hsu

QUOTE: 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...

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Key People:

• Senator Richard Blumenthal Esq.
• Senator Patrick J. Leahy
• James B. Comey Esq.
• Peter J. Neufeld Esq.
• Prof. Brandon L. Garrett Esq.
• Norman L. Reimer Esq.
• Sen. Charles "Chuck" E. Grassley

Key Organizations:

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Innocence Project
• Justice Department/Department of Justice (DOJ)
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
• Washington Post Newspaper

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  • Information
    • Truth / Honesty / Lying / Cheating

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    • Fair Trials
      • Evidence / Search & Seizures
      • Jury System
      • Perjury
  • Justice System
    • Judges / Judicial System / Courts
    • Lawyers: General
      • Prosecutors
  • Legal Ethics

• Science & Technology
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• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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