FRONTLINE

THE REAL CSI

THURSDAY, JULY 18 @ 7:00PM

How reliable is the science behind forensics? FRONTLINE finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science and wide inconsistencies in how forensic evidence is presented in the courtroom.

In 2004, cognitive neoroscientist Itiel Dror set out to examine whether the process of fingerprint analysis, long considered one of the most reliable forms of forensic science, can be biased by the knowledge examiners have when they attempt to find a match for prints from a crime scene.

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