"FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000"

No specific trial, but potentially one hell of an error.



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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... The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison... The FBI errors alone do not mean there was not other evidence of a convict’s guilt...

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