For decades, courts treated several forensic methods as hard science, even when the evidence behind them was weaker than most ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death row for murder, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI and U.S. Justice Department have acknowledged that almost all of the experts in a forensic unit dedicated to microscopic hair comparison gave flawed testimony against ...

"The electron microscope has been used in hair research for half a century, but the knowledge gained through this study has become rather fragmented over the years. While the molecular biological ...