Former AJA President Brian MacKenzie spearheaded the effort to educate judges about the dangers of junk science and the responsibility of judges to be gatekeepers. Forensic hair analysis is another form of junk science. Government studies acknowledge that FBI experts exaggerated the accuracy of forensic hair analysis in hundreds of cases going back decades. The National Registry of Exonerations recently found at least 129 cases in which people were wrongfully convicted at least partly because of flawed hair analysis offered by government witnesses. Fifteen people were given death sentences before forensic errors on hair fibers were found in their cases. In Florida, from death row, Gerald Murphy is trying to have his conviction overturned based on new evidence about flawed hair forensics. In collaboration with Mother Jones, Rene Ebersole has a very interesting story. THE MARSHALL PROJECT