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FBI Doesn't Tell Courts About Bogus Evidence

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the appelate-court-living-in-fear dept.

dprovine writes "According to a joint investigation by The Washington Post and 60 Minutes, a forensic test used by the FBI for decades is known to be invalid. The National Academy of Science issued a report in 2004 that FBI investigators had given "problematic" testimony to juries. The FBI later stopped using "bullet lead analysis", but sent a letter to law enforcement officials saying that they still fully supported the science behind it. Hundreds of criminal defendants — some already convicted in part on the testimony of FBI experts — were not informed about the problems with the evidence used against them in court."

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  1. Legion of Doom by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sometimes it seems like justice is impossible unless there's something like a criminals union, or at least a defendants union, to counterbalance the government agencies like the FBI that will just lie about evidence and be trusted by judges, who after all are both working for The Man (who raises all that money for bigger prisons).

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  2. Re:Preemptive trolling: somewhere, somehow... by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 1, Troll

    Note: at this point the FBI has reversed its decision, because of pressure caused by the 60 minutes report. Isn't it sad that it takes pressure from mainstream media in order to get the director of the FBI to make such a minor action that has such great potential for reversing injustices? What kind of a scumbag would put such a person in charge of the FBI?