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...conviction. A preliminary FBI study of eight cases found that in at least five, she had made outright errors or overstepped "the acceptable limits of forensic science." Gilchrist got convictions by matching hair samples with a certainty other forensic scientists found impossible to achieve. She also appears to have withheld evidence from the defense and failed to perform tests that could have cleared defendants...
...often find myself defending the Justice Department. For years in the courtroom I battled federal prosecutors and FBI agents, often accusing them of deliberately withholding evidence. In response, the government always claimed that the withheld documents were irrelevant and not "material" to my case...
...wasn't until March, after losing his final appeal, that McVeigh claimed sole responsibility for the Oklahoma City bombing. Before then his lawyers maintained that the government had withheld evidence showing that other unnamed suspects may have been responsible. Here's a crib sheet on the worst terrorist attack in American history...
...American legal system. In 1981, Clifford Henry Bowen was sentenced to death in Oklahoma despite 12 alibi witnesses after prosecutors failed to turn over exculpatory evidence. Similar stories could be told for 16 other Americans in the last 25 years, all of whom were convicted after exculpatory evidence was withheld from the defense, either in error or intentionally. In a sense, these men are the lucky ones: their innocence was discovered before their execution. The less fortunate do not have their cases reopened...
...Walter McMillian, convicted on perjured testimony in a two-day trial and released seven years later after the State of Alabama admitted that prosecutors had willfully withheld evidence of his innocence...