on April 22, 2015 in World News
FBI Corruption May Have Led to Execution of 14 Innocent People
FBI Corruption May Have Led to Execution of 14 Innocent People 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.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 … The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed… View Article
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