FBI Found to Have Lied in 95% of Certain Trials for Decades
by Anthony Sibley (AJ) on May 1, 2015 | Views: 147 | Score: 0
Trials in which FBI examiners intentionally gave flawed forensic evidence against defendant | All Trials | |
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Federal Trials Reviewed in Which FBI Forensic Testimony Used | 257 | 268 |
Trials Reviewed in Which FBI Hair Testimony Used
Sources:
washingtonpost.com
Considered a watershed in one of America's largest forensic scandals, an ongoing investigation of 268 federal court trials has found that-- for decades-- elite FBI forensics examiners have overstated hair sample matches, in ways that favored prosecutors, in 95% of cases. Moreover, 32 of those cases resulted in defendants being sentenced to death. And while four have been exonerated, 14 have already been executed or died in prison. This confirms a long-suspected and widespread pattern of discriminating against those supposedly "innocent until proven guilty," via erroneous scientific evidence.