Not My Fingerprint

<p>May 20, 2004. A lawyer named Brandon Mayfield walks out of a Portland, Oregon courtroom a free man. About two weeks earlier, Mayfield was arrested by the FBI because they thought they had his fingerprint on a key piece of evidence in the investigation of a terrorist train bombing in Madrid, Spain earlier that year. But by this afternoon in May, that key evidence has completely fallen apart. Today: a case of mistaken identity. Why did the FBI arrest the wrong man? And how did this case change forensic science for good?</p><p><br></p><p>Thank you to our guests, Professor Simon Cole from UC Irvine, Steven Wax, author of Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account, and Brandon Mayfield. </p><p><br></p><p>Thank you also to Judge Jones and former FBI agent Robert Jordan for speaking with us. </p><p><br></p><p>If you're interested in reading the Inspector General's Report cited, you can find it here: <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/s0601/PDF_list.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/s0601/PDF_list.htm</a> </p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>