The FBI used alleged forensic evidence technology in several thousand gun cases, to put people behind bars, only to reveal to the public at this late juncture, the apparatus and methodology they used are seriously flawed. Now the agency has to clean up its own mess in poring over thousand of cases, where members of the public have been convicted and sent to prison on fault evidence the Bureau provided. Once again, close the FBI. It's just one sham after another.

FBI reviewing thousands of court cases where flawed agency evidence has been used

January 18, 2010 | 6:01 a.m. - DENVER (AP) - Three people convicted of murder have been released from prison because their cases were tainted by a now discredited theory that bullets found at a crime scene could be linked to bullets found in possession of suspects.

Nearly five years after the FBI abandoned its so-called comparative bullet lead analysis, the FBI has yet to complete its review of nearly 2,500 cases where law enforcement used such evidence to investigate a case.

So far, the agency has found 187 cases where so-called comparative bullet lead analysis evidence was not only used in the investigation, but came into play at trial where FBI experts provided testimony. It has notified prosecutors in those cases where testimony from its experts "exceeds the limits of the science and cannot be supported by the FBI," one agency letter says.

At least three convictions - that of a Colorado man who served 12 years in prison for a double slaying, a Florida man who served 10 years after being convicted of killing his wife, and an Oregon man convicted of a triple slaying - have recently been overturned... 

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