... evidence in 9%, and lied in other ways in 55% of them.1 It has been established that hair analysis is a very weak evidence source. Eyewitness testimony is only as accurate as a coin flip and crime labs are dependent on police budgets (and thus on police goodwill). The number of convicts exonerated by DNA evidence is growing, and even fingerprinting has been ruled 'unreliable' by a judge. People with really low IQs are more willing to just do what they're told (such as confess even if innocent), and if the police say you confessed, and you deny it, who will be believed? One Vancouver detective had several 'confessions' where the charges wound up being dropped or the defendant acquitted. The CBC has found that "hundreds of times during the past 10 years, federal agents and prosecutors have pursued justice by breaking the law."2 3 In the Paul Morin ...

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