The homicide convictions of at least five Maine men are being questioned after a massive review found that an FBI forensic lab “overstated evidence” in cases across the country, the Portland Press Herald reports.
From the story: “The FBI inquiry, which began in 2012, focused on roughly 3,000 homicide convictions – including 35 death-row cases – from the 1980s and 1990s in which analysts from the FBI’s hair and fiber unit may have overstated their certainty that hair samples found at crime scenes were a match.”
Read the full story by the Portland Press Herald.