Posted on 05/25/2004 3:14:07 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:42:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Portland, OR, May. 25 (UPI) -- The FBI has apologized to Brandon Mayfield, a Portland, Ore., attorney and Muslim convert, for connecting him with the Madrid train bombing.
The agency said it erroneously identified Mayfield's fingerprint on a bag of detonators found near the site of the deadly March 11 terror attack in Spain, the Portland Oregonian reported Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I wonder if this Muslim forgot to bring his soap-on-a-rope to the lockup showers. It seems like he didn't enjoy his stay.
our bad.
buh-bye now!
Hey at least he got an apology, the folks at Waco got fried and denied...
Richard Jewel, Steven Hatfill, center fuel tank explosions, Brandon Mayfield...
The people at Waco and Ruby Ridge - and Richard Jewel - weren’t Americal Muslims either.
This calls into question every conviction obtained by FBI fingerprint evidence. Our FBI seem to have lost their stuff.
They have/had the best PR dept.
No, it does not.
At trial evidence is tested and evaluated by the experts and the jury. This error (and it's sure a doozy) was admitted to before it even went to trial.
Never mind that there was fingerprint evidence which was all over the place in Madrid, and just happened to be a close...albeit mistaken...match....
"Hey at least he got an apology, the folks at Waco got fried and denied..."
Hit the nail on the head rolling_stone!
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