FBI Fudged Forensic Hair Matches In Nearly All Criminal Trials For Decades
Anyone who has read even a few of my dozens of articles railing against our flawed justice system, especially in death penalty cases, knows why I am opposed to Capital Punishment: because most police fabricate evidence, most witnesses are mistaken as to what they actually saw, most prosecutors either tamper with or hide exculpatory evidence, most confessions are coerced, all jailhouse snitches offer self-serving lies, DNA evidence is not absolutely unique, and worst of all - most FBI forensic evidence is unreliable.
The reason that I write that the last statement is "worst of all" is because many juries have sent innocent men to their death because of the high regard that is placed on the work of the FBI's forensic analyses; analyses which I have written previously as mostly bullshit and should not be believed.
What proof do I have for that statement which I wrote more than a year ago?
Well, how about the FBI itself finally copping to something that I have known since 1984: FBI examiners fabricated, forged, faked and fudged the evidence to make sure that the prosecution would win at any cost regardless of whether the accused was innocent or guilty:
The Washington Post, 18 April 2015, FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
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, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.
The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions.
