Blood-spatter patterns, arson analysis, bite-mark comparisons, even some fingerprint evidence have all turned out to be unreliable. A quarter of the 3,439 exonerations tracked by the National Registry ...

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 ...

In a study with implications for an array of forensic ... the evidence to more tools increases the chances that similar striations may be found on unrelated tools, resulting in a false accusation ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited testimony about bite marks.

including false scientific evidence, to convict him." Peterson's lawyers argued in the filing that the case against him was "entirely circumstantial," adding that "no direct, physical or forensic ...

Forensic evidence can be an important tool ... "These kits essentially offer false promises to consumers by misleading them to think evidence collected privately at home can result in a criminal ...