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microscopic hair comparisons before 2000. what does it tell us about the advances made for that evidence used today? well, i mean it s reliability point to 74 wrongful convictions alone. it s obviously highly unreliable. there s a 2009 report from the national academy of sciences that said it was highly unreliable evidence despite the way it was introduced in trials. we ve got the cases including 32 did defendants sentenced to death. some of those have been executed or died in prison. how can the state authorities respond to this admission? state authorities have to respond. what s really critical to understand is that the fbi trained hundreds of state hair comparison experts across the country to provide the same testimony they provided. for this system needing
reversed. a lot of these convictions relied only in part on these hair comparisons. the forensic science was only one piece of the evidence. but you are absolutely right that scientific evidence presented to a jury and i ve seen it done as a prosecutor relied on it myself the jury reacts with credibility. the heads nod, the eyes open. and so it can have great impact beyond the specific point that it s used to prove. so i think there has to be an examination of all of this kind of forensic evidence, whether it s hand-writing or bite marks or ballistic analysis. this kind of forensic evidence needs standards. they re lacking now. i m going to be introducing a bill that will not only enable but also require better standards going forward. and certainly there are a lot of questions for the 26 fbi agents who are responsible for this flawed testimony. and the folks that they have in
that s not the way this testing works. it s not very reliable and now we ve had dna testing, and it s shown a lot of cases where the expert testifies, that the hairs match, it wasn t, in fact, true the defendant was not the person who committed the crime. there are serious concerns. are you concerned about cases since 2000? current criminal cases? i am. but over time, in 2012, now there s an agreement where the fbi speshtszexperts testify, not there an agreement with the innocence projects with other criminal defense associations now that they will testify that there is no certainty with these hair comparisons and just to be clear, they will now testify they will say a specific person or could not be included or excluded from a pool of people that might be the source of this hair sample. it s new general. it versus coming in and saying a hair taken from the defendant is virtually indistinguishable from
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