Louis Freeh's FBI the gift that keeps on giving...

[tboyer]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150512_FBI_hair_errors_call_convictions_into_question.html

Before DNA testing became the gold standard in forensic science, hair analysis was often a prosecutor's trump card.

Developed by the FBI's vaunted crime lab, microscopic hair analysis - comparing a hair found at a crime scene with one from a criminal defendant - as described in polished, confident testimony by an FBI hair analyst, could seal a guilty verdict.

Now, an ongoing FBI hair-analysis review - preliminary results were announced April 20 - recommends a wholesale look at cases in which testimony about microscopic hair analysis contributed to a guilty verdict.

The FBI review of about 500 transcripts of trials before 2000, when DNA testing supplanted microscopic hair analysis, shows FBI hair analysts made erroneous statements or exaggerated evidence in 96 percent of cases.


Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/2...ctions_into_question.html#hUQSdqjBAFtWU11B.99

 

[eidolon21]

In using science to "prove" facts, the human element must always be considered.
For the FBI, getting convictions outweighed the actual reliability of the tests.
We must always be careful when someone says something is scientifically proven.
Ask yourself "What is in it, of value, for the people making that claim?"

 

[Fayette_LION]

"Exaggerated evidence in 96 percent of cases"...........now that is pretty consistent. A number of these cases dealt with the death penalty. Louie makes no bones about taking anyone and everyone down.

 

[WeR0206]

And yet, some how, the main stream media still cheer-leads for louie everytime he releases one of his "independent investigation" reports and NEVER bothers to read his reports with a critical eye or question the findings, etc.....even when his reports come to outrageous conclusions/accusations.

 

[lionlurker]

Unfortunately, the gift he gave us is not returnable.

 

[KSLion]

Unfortunately, the gift he gave us is not returnable.

PSU bought and paid handsomely for its "gift" from Mr. Freeh. He gave the University nothing.