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[Washington Post] "FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000."

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
Fire the 26 effective immediately, with no pensions and no references. If any others discovered to have given flawed testimony during the period inquestion turn out to be already retired, halt their pensions permanently effective the next pay period.
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.
It's OK though. They are very sorry.

Posted by: Iblis 2015-04-20
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=415511