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| Kevin Martin |
In order to ensure justice and credence in our legal system, a series of checks and balances are in place. Nowhere are these checks and balances so essential than in the criminal justice system. In 1982, a seventeen-year-old boy named Kevin Martin was sent to prison for over twenty-six years for a rape homicide that he did not commit based on misrepresented FBI hair analysis. Although Mr. Martin’s claim to innocence has finally been publically and scientifically acknowledged, there are still many questions left unanswered.
