The Christian Science Monitor Daily for April 23, 2021
“Concentrate on what cannot lie: the evidence.” With that simple statement in the pilot episode of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” lead character Gil Grissom voices perhaps the greatest myth about forensic science: its certainty. Since 1989, bad forensic science has contributed to as many as a quarter of the 2,700-plus exonerations nationwide. Tens of thousands of cases have been found to be tainted by faulty forensic analysis or testimony. The Houston Police Department had one such lab – consumed by years of mismanagement, neglect, and corruption – out of which grew the...
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