Wrongfully-convicted Former Prisoner Receives $13.2 Million in FBI Hair Analysis Case

Loaded on Sept. 2, 2016 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News September, 2016, page 38

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Evidence, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, FBI. Location: District of Columbia.

A 55-year-old man who was convicted based upon the now-discredited “science” of forensics hair analysis has been awarded $13.2 million by District of Columbia Superior Court Judge John M. Mott. This was just the latest in a long line of cases where pseudo-scientific testimony by the FBI crime lab resulted ...

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