Great reporting by The Washington Post on flawed forensic evidence has prompted the U.S. Justice Department to review thousands of cases in search of possible wrongful convictions. The Post’s latest story is here.
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This story makes clear that law enforcement often has to be pulled in the right direction before it will do the right thing. Kirk Odom and Santae Tribble may now have some measure of justice, after years in prison. But it is disturbing that the DOJ resisted doing anything about the “thousands” of cases resting on weak hair and fiber evidence for so long, even though the science on this so-called science is clear. Instead we see a familiar pattern: law enforcement resists science, until it can no longer ignore because of public exposure and pressure.
David Harris, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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