Years of Faulty Forensic Science on Hair Samples Plagues Criminal Justice System
An Innocent Man Released
Mr. Kirk Odom
In 2012, after 22 years in prison, Kirk L. Odom walked out of a Washington D.C. courthouse an innocent man. A jury found Mr. Odom’s guilty of a rape and robbery of a woman in 1981. Judge Herbert B. Dixon of the D.C. Superior Court cited new DNA evidence as part of the basis for Mr. Odom’s exoneration.
Forensic Science: Both the Solution and the Problem
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