Convictions linked to FBI lab’s suspect forensics

 

Following a 1997 misconduct scandal at the FBI Laboratory, a Justice Department task force commissioned secret scientific assessments of suspect forensic work in about 250 convictions nationwide. The department never identified cases reviewed. State and federal prosecutors, who were given results, often did not share them with courts, defendants or their counsel.

 

A Washington Post investigation identified defendants in these 137 reviewed cases. Links at right lead to review results obtained in Freedom of Information Act requests.

 

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SOURCE: Washington Post and National Whistleblowers Center analysis of records of the U.S. Department of Justice Task Force on the FBI Laboratory obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
GRAPHIC: Spencer Hsu, Jennifer Jenkins, Aaron Carter, Ted Mellnik, Wilson Andrews – The Washington Post; Andrew Berkowitz – National Whistleblowers Center. Published April 17, 2012.

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SOURCE: Washington Post and National Whistleblowers Center analysis of records of the U.S. Department of Justice Task Force on the FBI Laboratory obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
GRAPHIC: Spencer Hsu, Jennifer Jenkins, Aaron Carter, Ted Mellnik, Wilson Andrews – The Washington Post; Andrew Berkowitz – National Whistleblowers Center. Published April 17, 2012.