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I'm talking about the 32 capital cases referred to in the article. Which are you talking about? The ones you imagine as a symbol of systemic injustice? Or actua

• jessaustin 10y ago
  Ah, OK, I can see how that was confusing, from a certain point of view. From TFA: “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.” That is, these dickheads lied almost every time. We shouldn't suspect only the 250 verdicts their lies about which have been documented. We should suspect every single verdict that they touched. The WaPo article is more informative than TFA in this respect, in that it reveals that 2500 cases over this period had FBI hair testimony, while only 342 had been reviewed when that article was published. It also drops this bomb: "The bureau expects this year to complete similar standards for testimony and lab reports for 19 forensic disciplines." That is, there are tens of thousands more cases with shitty lying FBI expert testimony. I tried digging out more precise figures on this last part, but the Innocence Project's site is kind of a mess.