FBI reviewing forensics on thousands of cases

July 12, 2012 6:13 AM

The FBI is doing the largest review of cases in its history, looking at some 18,000 convictions since 1985, that relied on hair analysis by the FBI laboratory. Senior correspondent John Miller, a former FBI assistant director, talks to Erica Hill and Lee Cowan about the review.

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