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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

When expert testimony isn't: Tainted evidence wreaks havoc in courts, lives

Technician Matthew Smith loads a robotic DNA sample automation machine at a pharmaceutical laboratory in Tarrytown, New York. A 2009 study of 156 innocent people convicted of serious crimes who were later exonerated by DNA evidence found that 60 percent of the forensic analysts called by the prosecution provided invalid testimony.
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