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National Academy of Sciences Report finds Science Found Wanting in Nation?s Crime Labs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"One person who has reviewed the draft and who asked not to be identified because of promises to keep the contents confidential said: ?I?m sure that every defense attorney in the country is waiting for this report to come out. There are going to be challenges to fingerprints and firearms evidence and the general lack of empirical grounding. It?s going to be big.? Science Found Wanting in Nation?s Crime Labs By SOLOMON MOORE Published: February 4, 2009 NY Times Forensic evidence that has helped convict thousands of defendants for nearly a century is often the product of shoddy scientific practices that should be upgraded and standardized, according to accounts of a draft report by the nation?s pre-eminent scientific research group. The report by the National Academy of Sciences is to be released this month...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).