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Discredited Hair Analysis Is Fueling Efforts to Overturn Convictions

Rapper Common talks about his work bringing music into prisons, and incarcerated people fight their convictions from debunked forensic science.

Inside Story • 10.03.2024

This Scientist Helped Free the Innocent Using DNA. Now Biden Wants Him in the Cabinet.

Some experts hope Eric Lander, the president’s choice for new science adviser, will crack down on bad forensics in courtrooms.

Looking Back • 01.26.2021

A DNA Test Might Help Exonerate This Man. A Judge Won’t Allow It.

North Carolina judge denies testing in a 1992 murder case, but lawyers want shell casings examined.

Case in Point • 03.18.2019

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