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Monday, May 1, 2017, 5:25am

The FBI admits errors in 90 percent of hair and fiber cases. Such errors are now a factor in one-fifth of all DNA exonerations. The case involving Richard Beranek is among 13 in Wisconsin which the FBI acknowledges it used flawed microscopic hair comparison. 

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