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Forensic experts exposed as frauds, and the prosecutors who keep using them, face no consequences.
Their wordsAnd while some courts have ruled that Hayne and West aren’t credible experts, the two men never faced any real accountability.
Their wordsProsecutors tended to choose doctors they could trust to give them the results they wanted.
Our reading
A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.
Their wordsThe old system stubbornly defied reform because it served the people in power.
Our reading
Bite-mark matching is junk science, and the courts have admitted it for five decades anyway.
Their wordsTo be clear, bitemark evidence is junk science. There has never been any scientific research to support the idea that bites on human skin can be matched to the teeth of one person, to the exclusion of everyone else.