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on August 12, 2015 in World News

FBI admits to routinely giving flawed forensic evidence in death penalty cases

FBI admits to routinely giving flawed forensic evidence in death penalty cases In the latest example of how abusive our government has become, the Justice Department and FBI have admitted recently that its forensic analysts lied repeatedly, over decades, about evidence, in order to help federal prosecutors win convictions. As reported by The Washington Post, both entities “formally acknowledged” that almost all the examiners in an elite FBI forensic division provided false testimony in nearly every trial in which they were called to offer evidence against criminal defendants throughout at 20-year period prior to 2000. Hundreds of flawed cases already… View Article

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