FBI overstated forensic hair matches for decades

Nation's largest post-conviction review shows FBI examiners misstated forensic results in 95 percent of 268 trials before 2000. Washington a 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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