Letter From High-Ranking FBI Lawyer Tells Prosecutors How To Avoid Court Scrutiny Of Firearms Analysis Junk Science

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Letter From High-Ranking FBI Lawyer Tells Prosecutors How To Avoid Court Scrutiny Of Firearms Analysis Junk Science

18 February 2022

Law enforcement — including the FBI — like to claim they’re heavily invested in science. The use of forensic “science” has been with us for years, but nowhere is it more sketchy than in law enforcement labs, where zero accountability rubs elbows with zero outside review of methods. For years now, evidence historically claimed to be almost certain indications of guilt has been shown to be, in many cases, no better than a coin flip. Even DNA has its problems, especially when “expert” witnesses overstate their ability to exclude “innocent” DNA from cluttered crime scenes. The unwillingness of police to ...

Letter From High-Ranking FBI Lawyer Tells Prosecutors How To Avoid Court Scrutiny Of Firearms Analysis Junk Science

Law enforcement — including the FBI — like to claim they’re heavily invested in science. The use of forensic “science” has been with us for years, but nowhere is it mo…

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Why a High-Ranking FBI Attorney Is Pushing ‘Unbelievable’ Junk Science on Guns
They Know It's Wrong.
Forensic analysts testify at trials as “experts.” But juries don't know that their methods "seriously underestimate the false positive rate.”

9 February 2022

Late last year, a forensic firearms analyst in Wisconsin emailed a remarkable document to more than 200 of her colleagues across the country. It was a handout from an online lecture given by Jim Agar, the assistant general counsel for the FBI Crime Lab. For years, forensic firearms analysts have claimed the ability to examine the marks on a bullet found at a crime scene and match it to the gun that fired it—to the exclusion of all other guns. It can be powerfully persuasive to juries. But over the last decade or so, some scientists have cast doubt on ...

Why a High-Ranking FBI Attorney Is Pushing ‘Unbelievable’ Junk Science on Guns

Forensic analysts testify at trials as “experts.” But juries don't know that their methods "seriously underestimate the false positive rate.”

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