Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI's 'mass disaster' of false conviction. So far all of the false convictions relate to men.

autotldr · 2015-04-21T22:11:53+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)

The FBI agent's conclusion in front of the jury was emphatic: "The hair found on the sheet exhibits all the same microscopic hair arranged in the same way as the characteristics present in the known hair from [Perrot]. I conclude that the hair was consistent with coming from the defendant," he told the court.

Expert witnesses should not cite the number of hair analyses they had conducted in the lab to bolster the idea that they could definitively state that a hair belonged to a specific individual.

Over the past few years, advanced understanding in the science of hair types has left hair analysis, as a forensic tool, in tatters.

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Deefry · 2015-04-22T05:55:45+00:00

Snapshot.

Sabz5150 · 2015-04-22T12:53:12+00:00

I wonder if these agents will serve time for false testimony....

Title	Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI's 'mass disaster' of false conviction. So far all of the false convictions relate to men.
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Date	April 21, 2015 9:05 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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