DA acknowledges junk science in arson conviction

Dec. 17, 2015 “Three men convicted of murder by arson for a 1980 fire in Brooklyn (were) exonerated on Wednesday…. “What carried the three men into prison was not reliable evidence of an intentionally set blaze, but rather an arson investigation that was more like shamanism than science, rooted in hunches and folklore and disconnected … Continue reading DA acknowledges junk science in arson conviction