<h1 style="font-size:20px;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/VP6EHT/XTDFBA/IIBJH7/7BPMDY/QFTOLG/QR/h?a=http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/convicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept/2012/04/16/gIQAWTcgMT_story.html" target="_blank">Convicted defendants uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept.</a></h1>

<br>Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed 
forensic work might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent 
people, but prosecutors failed to notify defendants or their attorneys 
even in many cases they knew were troubled.<br>
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Officials started reviewing the cases in the 1990s after reports 
surfaced that sloppy work by examiners at the FBI lab was producing 
unreliable forensic evidence in court trials. Instead of releasing those
 findings, they made them available only to the prosecutors in the 
affected cases, according to documents and interviews with dozens of 
officials.<br><br>
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