In March 2017, NACDL provided a faculty member for the Federal Defender Services capital habeas training: “7th National Seminar on Forensic Evidence & the Criminal Law.” NACDL Senior Resource Counsel trained federal habeas corpus lawyers on the results and lessons from the FBI Microscopic Hair Comparison Analysis Review, problems with the scientific validity of hair comparison evidence, relevance to other feature comparison disciplines and litigating innocence cases. (grant travel funds were NOT needed for this)
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Attendees at the event were federal defenders from across the country who do post-conviction cases, including capital habeas corpus.
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