NACDL help Reveal that the FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000

Posted by Jessica Carmichael | Apr 19, 2015 | 0 Comments

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.

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