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FBI admits to lying about hair analysis

2016-04-27 23:41:29.195365+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

FBI admits overstating hair analysis for the prosecution over decades.

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.

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