“‘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.’ The shameful, horrifying errors were uncovered in a massive, three-year review by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Innocence Project. Following revelations published in recent years, the two groups are helping the government with the country’s largest ever post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.
Chillingly, as the Post continues, ‘the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death.’ Of these defendants, 14 have already been executed or died in prison.”
Let this sink in for a minute.
Honestly, people interested in this sort of thing should check out the 2016 PCAST report on criminal forensics (summarized in part here ) Basically, there is no peer reviewed scientific evidence for most of forensic criminology. Really only single sample DNA tests and whole undistorted fingerprint analysis, neither of which is commonly used in the courtroom, are scientifically grounded at all.
Of course, both the FBI and the DOJ refuse to change their unscientific methods, surprising absolutely no one, and both PCAST itself, as well as the scientific organization founded from their first report are now either dismantled or unused by the new “law and order” administration
I watched a 60 minutes episode on the unreliability of finger prints. They found two men with the same prints.
The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science
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