Heres the hair from the crime scene. Im looking at them under the microscope and they have enough characteristics where i can say with reasonable scientific certainty that these two hairs match. They believed in what they were doing, but they were not scientists. It wasnt science at all. At all. Joseph was at least the 74th american exonerated of a crime in a case involving the Forensic Science of microscopic hair analysis. Its not science to visually examine something and say theyre the same. Thats not science. Thats subjectivity. The u. S. Department of justice is now reviewing thousands of old convictions containing hair analysis testimony. Last april, it released a devastating assessment. In the cases reviewed, fbi testimony about hair evidence was scientifically invalid 95 percent of the time. This is a virus that escaped from the Fbi Crime Lab and it infected the entire criminal Justice System and its going to take a lot of work to undo it. The integrity of the criminal Justice S
Were not his. Heres the hair from the defendant. Heres the hair from the crime scene. Im looking at them under the microscope and they have enough characteristics where i can say with reasonable scientific certainty that these two hairs match. They believed in what they were doing, but they were not scientists. It wasnt science at all. At all. Joseph was at least the 74th american exonerated of a crime in a case involving the Forensic Science of microscopic hair analysis. Its not science to visually examine something and say theyre the same. Thats not science. Thats subjectivity. The u. S. Department of justice is now reviewing thousands of old convictions containing hair analysis testimony. Last april, it released a devastating assessment. In the cases reviewed, fbi testimony about hair evidence was scientifically invalid 95 percent of the time. This is a virus that escaped from the Fbi Crime Lab and it infected the entire criminal Justice System and its going to take a lot of work to
Awake. Fox 5s bob barnard has more. The fda says no link has been proven, but if government investigators determine caffeinated drinks like 5hour energy have contributed to or caused any deaths reported to the fda, it may order those popular energy shots off the market. The fda investigation comes three weeks after we told you about the death of 14yearold Anias Fournier of hagerstown. She died due to caffiene toxicity according to the autopsy. Her family said she drank two 24ounce Monster Energy drinks 24 hours before she died and had a genetic disorder that can weaken blood vessels. Her mother, wendy crossland. Its just something that you never want to go through. The fda says its now investigating reports of five deaths possibly linked to Monster Energy drink, another 13 to a product called 5hour energy. Id say like most of my friends here take them like often. They really do help us stay awake studying, you know, like if i have a paper the night before, ill definitely drink some. We
Science, statistics and expert testimony are crucial in securing justice. But their dubious applications in the courtroom can send innocent people to jail
presumably women who have spent decades languaging ine ing languishing in jail. and kirk odom was exonerated after serving 20 years in jail after a crime he didn t commit was sexually assaulted multiple times, contracted hiv, tried to kill himself in jail. what happens to a man like that who is now free? should there be some kind of compensation or renumeration for what the state did to him incorrectly? some of those defendants, for example, in connecticut have sought and received some kind of compensation. but let s give credit first of all to the innocence project for the great work on those cases, and on this disclosure as well as the washington post and others who have stayed with this story. but going forward, a means of access for the justice. for the thousands potentially who may have those kinds of claims. not just compensation, but to their convictions being