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Exposing the flaws in forensics

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Los Angeles County's palm and fingerprint system which allows police agencies to compare prints with a database of 80 million fingerprints and 250,000 palm prints at Sheriff's Crime Lab in Los Angeles. (2003).(Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

From fingerprints to firearms, bite marks and fibres - the impression of forensic evidence as an all powerful infallible technology and science is far from the truth.

Brandon Garrett chronicles the litany of cases where flawed forensics have put innocent people in gaol and in some cases on death row.

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Brandon Garrett: Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where he directs the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Author of Autopsy of a Crime Lab:  Exposing the Flaws in Forensics

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