{"id":809,"date":"2016-01-11T05:21:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T05:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forensicsforum.net\/?p=809"},"modified":"2016-01-11T05:21:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T05:21:36","slug":"federal-court-in-pennsylvania-allows-the-re-sentencing-of-a-man-who-plead-guilty-due-to-an-invalid-hair-comparison-analysis-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/2016\/01\/11\/federal-court-in-pennsylvania-allows-the-re-sentencing-of-a-man-who-plead-guilty-due-to-an-invalid-hair-comparison-analysis-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal court in Pennsylvania allows the re-sentencing of a man who plead guilty due to an invalid hair comparison analysis report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In an uncontested motion, defendant John Flick moved to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence for a 1999 conviction of five counts of armed bank robbery and one count of the use of a firearm in a crime of violence. In May 2015, the Department of Justice announced that hair comparison results prior to December 31, 1999 would be under review after finding that many experts&#8217; reports contained statements that &#8220;exceeded the limits of science.&#8221; Flick argued that his plea agreement was based on a positive identification through hair comparison analysis that would no longer be considered valid. The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office did not oppose his motion and the parties agreed to request a 222 month sentence instead of a 235 month sentence that had originally been imposed. The court found the agreement to be reasonable and re-sentenced Flick to 222 months with credit for time served.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>U.S. v. Flick, 2016 WL80669 (2016)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an uncontested motion, defendant John Flick moved to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence for a 1999 conviction of five counts of armed bank robbery and one count of the use of a firearm in a crime of&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/2016\/01\/11\/federal-court-in-pennsylvania-allows-the-re-sentencing-of-a-man-who-plead-guilty-due-to-an-invalid-hair-comparison-analysis-report\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNSM2-d3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duke.edu\/forensicsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}