I have a new article live at An Injustice!, about the human factors behind the kinds of mistakes in forensic science that can lead to wrongful convictions.
The article came about after I learned of a research report, published earlier in 2023, that explored this topic in much greater detail. The long and the short of it: since 1989, 732 cases and 1,391 forensic examinations resulted in exonerations for the defendants involved.
This report, and my article, focused on forensic evidence in general, but I want to highlight one finding in particular: just 16 cases — two percent of those 732 — involved digital evidence.