WASHINGTON -- Kirk Odom was convicted of a 1981 rape and robbery after a woman identified him as her attacker, and an FBI specialist testified hair on her nightgown was consistent with hair on Odom's ...
Recent admissions by the FBI that its experts have overstated the scientific veracity of forensic hair have led to the first conviction to be overturned. The Washington Post reports that a ...
You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...
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