Opinion: Fix forensic science to aid criminal justice reform
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Late last year, Michigan’s criminal justice system reached a sad milestone: According to the National Registry of Exonerations, more than 100 men and women have been exonerated in the state since 1989 after serving time in prison for crimes they did not commit. Michigan is the 10th most populous state, but it ranks fifth for the most exonerations.
One of the leading causes of wrongful convictions is flawed forensic science. Of Michigan’s 102 proven wrongful convictions, at least 21 resulted from seemingly reliable forensic evidence that was found, years later, to be somewhere between misleading and outright fraudulent. It is time Michigan joins other states by creating a forensic science commission to help ensure that only reliable science is used to put people behind bars.
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