9. Myth of Fingerprints
The seventh episode of Law & Order‘s twelfth season told the story of a fingerprint expert whose testimony and forensic science is put into question. The episode likely gained inspiration from the story of Joyce Gilchrist, who was a forensic scientist based in Oklahoma City.
The FBI exonerated her records and went through her lab to find out that her testimony and findings didn’t reflect was was testified in court or given to police detectives, which means that she may have wrongfully sent people to prison and death row.
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