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Forensic error
The lab coat isn't proof.
52%
of Innocence Project client cases involved forensic error — Innocence Project
Forensic disciplines that sound scientific — bite-mark analysis, hair microscopy, arson pattern reading, even some fingerprint and ballistics comparisons — have been used in court for decades without the rigorous validation the word “science” implies. When these methods are later re-examined, false matches and inflated certainty have sent people to prison for crimes the evidence never actually proved.
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