The Washington Post recently reported about a massive investigation which started in 2012 into problems at an FBI lab.  The new inquiry involves 2,600 convictions and 45 death-row cases from the 1980s and 1990s in which the FBIs hair and fiber unit reported matches to crime scene samples before DNA testing became common. This is at least the second round of inquiries into these issues.  The first inquiry was in the 1990s when the problems then were attributed to a single rogue agent. The problems are compounded because courts and law enforcement authorities are generally reluctant to allow individuals to … Continue reading Flawed FBI Forensic Testimony