Pseudoscience in the Witness Box
“The Washington Post published a story so horrifying this weekend that it would stop your breath. The FBI’s three-decade use of microscopic hair analysis to incriminate defendants was a complete disaster. The Post reported that flawed forensic hair matches might have led to possibly hundreds of wrongful convictions for rape, murder, and other violent crimes, dating back at least to the 1970s.”
Source: FBI’s flawed forensics expert testimony: Hair analysis, bite marks, fingerprints, arson.