The United States Justice Department and FBI have admitted that a significant number of examiners in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony against criminal defendants in almost all the trials over more than a two decade period.
“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, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project” (Hsu, 2015, n.p.). The NACDL and The Innocence Project are helping with the largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence...
