#152 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Hair Microscopy Evidence
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Josh Dubin speaks with Vanessa Antoun, Senior Resource Counsel at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) to learn about Hair Microscopy Evidence.
Even when examined under a microscope, the similarities that can be observed between two hairs are open to wide interpretation, there are no definitive traits that can prove with any scientific certainty that a suspect’s hair matches a hair found at a crime scene. Yet hair comparison analysis was still being used to falsely identify and convict innocent people up until the year 2000 and people are still incarcerated who were convicted based on this false evidence.
So how did this evidence get admitted into courts in the first place?
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