'Great Pause' Among Prosecutors As DNA Proves Fallible
Seen in light of <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/04/fbi_s_flawed_forensics_expert_testimony_hair_analysis_bite_marks_fingerprints.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...</a> this looks like a systemic problem and not an innocent mistake. If crime labs were doing <i>science</i>, they would have run enough control samples to quickly discover the mistake. But the error "may have affected thousands of cases going back to 1999". I don't think forensic science, as currently practiced in the United States, deserves the name "science". And the errors are all in the same direction: towards conviction.