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Faulty Bullet-Test Cases Finding Way to Court

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That;'s the title of an article in the current issue of the National Law Journal dealing with the now reputed bullet lead analysis, another one-time mainstay of forensic analysis now relegated to junk science status.  LINKMartin Mcclain, a defense lawyer in Florida, says his client is on death row in large part due to unreliable science. Derrick Smith was found guilty of a 1983 homicide in a trial involving "bullet lead analysis," a method the FBI acknowledged in 2005 is invalid. Florida v. Smith, No. 83-02653-CFANO-I (Pinellas Co., Fla., Cir. Ct.). His case is a prime example of the kind that a new task force wants reviewed in hopes of reversing any wrongdoing that may have resulted from the faulty test. [NLJ, 4-4-05...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).