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Review of problematic FBI forensics fails to include to federally trained state, local examiners

Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:18:48 PM

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Review of problematic FBI forensics fails to include to federally trained state, local examiners

Thousands of criminal cases at the state and local level may have relied on exaggerated testimony or false forensic evidence to convict defendants of murder, rape and other felonies.

The forensic experts in these cases were trained by the same elite FBI team whose members gave misleading court testimony about hair matches and later taught the local examiners to follow the same suspect practices, according to interviews and documents. Those FBI cases are under view, but no local cases are included in the inquiry.

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