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Annie Dookhan was released about a month ago after serving approximately 2 years and 4 months of a three- to four-year sentence after pleading guilty to faking laboratory tests that may have affected a thousand or more criminal cases. Dozens… Continue Reading →

Defendant Sonia Caci was convicted of murder by arson for the 1991 death of her uncle in house fire. At trial, an expert testified that there was evidence of an accelerant on the decedent’s clothes and on some of the furniture. Six… Continue Reading →

In the post-9/11 years, the FBI has been compiling a database of photographs for its biometric facial recognition system. While some of the photographs come from mugshots or soldiers who have taken pictures of suspected terrorists, other photos come from… Continue Reading →

With new technology, DNA can be tested when a sample consists of as little as 25 or 30 cells. This high sensitivity of testing creates a greater risk of false positives, particularly through “touch DNA.” In one such experiment regarding touch… Continue Reading →

Defendant Gary D’Angelo McDuffie was convicted of charges including bank and post office robbery in a 1999 trial. McDuffie argued that an expert’s testimony regarding hair comparison analysis violates the standards set by the FBI and the Innocence Project in 2012. He… Continue Reading →

The Houston Forensic Science Center will review its policies after three separate incidents where evidence samples were contaminated. The actual results of the tests in the three incidents were not affected because there were other uncontaminated samples that were testable. However,… Continue Reading →

The first case involves 81-year-old Han Tak Lee, who had spent 24 years in prison wrongfully convicted of murder and arson based on faulty forensic theories about arson. After his release, he remains bitter and suspicious of others. He struggles… Continue Reading →

Annie Dookhan, a former drug chemist for a Massachusetts crime lab, is potentially connected to thousands of cases that may have been mishandled. In 2013, pled guilty to tampering with evidence and was sentenced to three to five years in prison, but… Continue Reading →

Lawmakers in Washington have introduced a bill that would have a bar code for each rape kit and allow victims to electronically track the progress of the rape kit testing. Approximately 6000 rape kits had gone untested in Washington state,… Continue Reading →

Keith Hayward, age 59, has spent 33 years in prison due to a wrongful conviction of raping a woman then murdering her husband. The surviving victim stated that the attacker held a diaper over her head as he raped her… Continue Reading →