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Label the limits of forensic science

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This week marks a chance to curb the misuse of crime-scene evidence in US courts and spare innocent people from going to jail, says Robin Mejia.

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  1. Robin Mejia is the manager of the Statistics and Human Rights Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.,

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