Unable to defend himself with this exculpatory evidence, Masters was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He served nine years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA. False and/or Misleading ...

Biological evidence in these cases often is lost ... Perrot imprisoned on the basis of this now indisputably false and misleading forensic testimony,” his lawyers wrote in seeking a new trial.

Of cases involving false or misleading forensic science ... where the criminal justice system is going wrong in evaluating evidence." Cases analyzed in the study were identified via media searches ...

The National Registry of Exonerations, a public database maintained by three universities, lists some 670 cleared cases, between 1989 and 2021, that originally involved false or misleading forensic ...