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Man Convicted on Faulty FBI Bullet-Lead Evidence Heading Back to Court
Today's Washington Post has an update on the FBI Bullet-Lead debacle. Lee Wayne Hunt , a North Carolina man who has maintained his innocence since being convicted of murder in 1986, is appealing his case to the North Carolina Supreme Court....
Senate Committee Taking Action on Bullet-Lead Cases
Yesterday, John Solomon of the Washington Post reported that the Senate Judiciary Committee is requiring that the FBI turn over records related to all criminal cases in which bullet-lead analysis was presented as evidence. There are over 2,500 such cases nationwide. Dr....
Washington Post Bullet-Lead Story; Check Back Tonight for Updates.
The Washington Post-60 Minutes investigation, published in today's Washington Post, has confirmed that the convictions of hundreds of defendants have come into question because a bullet-lead analysis used for 40 years has been discredited and the FBI has failed for...
Bullet-Lead and The Forensic Justice Project
The entry below is a special contribution from Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, the Executive Director of the Forensic Justice Project (a special project of the National Whistleblower Center) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The justice system needs answers, and science never comes up with final...
Bullet-Lead Case Records and Stonewalling by the FBI
On November 18, 2007, the results of an investigation into the operations of the FBI crime lab were printed in the Washington Post and broadcast on CBS News 60 Minutes. The Forensic Justice Project (“FJP”), a project of the National...
Major FBI Whistleblower Story Breaking This Weekend
This Sunday, The Washington Post and 60 Minutes will be breaking a major story detailing appalling injustices committed by the FBI. This story has been over 10 years in the making, and is the direct product of work done...
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