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Santae Tribble Case Summary

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Introduction The FBI has done two case reviews on hair analysist. One of these reviews were done in 1996 and the other is still on going. The latter review came about because of three exonerations. One of these exonerations was that of a DC man, Santae Tribble. Santae Tribble was put in prison for armed robbery and murder. He was put there because of one hair. One hair that we now know was not Santae Tribbles. So what is the FBI doing about it? The First FBI Review In 1996 to 2004, there was a review done by the FBI into 13 hair analysts (U.S. Department). The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has done three reports on this review (U.S. Department). The latest of these reports came out in 2014 (U.S. Department). In this report, the OIG …show more content…

It is unethical to not put a priority on those who in death row. Why did it take so long, five years, to find so few cases, sixty four? Why did they think it was appropriate to limit their cases to ones that had happened after 1985? This could have cost several people their live sitting in prison, one of those live could have been Santae Tribbles. While you cannot blame the group who conducted the study for not putting a limitation on how long the prosecutor could take because this is the prosecutor’s ethics at stake. You would think that it would be a priority for a prosecutor to inform the defendants of the mistakes, the prosecutor must not find this important. They do not care about the defendant and how they could have locked up an innocent person? Finally, were there repercussions for the review board? Was there repercussions for the thirteen analysist who were found having said or written false statements? It is obvious that they had to reexamine the situation and do a better …show more content…

26 out of 28 analysts/agents have provided inaccurate statements or flawed reports to the courts in 41 states ("FBI Testimony"). This is thirteen more analysts than in the original study. According to the FBI, these analysts over exaggerated their results in courts and in reports for more than 4 decades. The cases being reviewed, are from before mitochondrial DNA was used ("FBI

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