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Academics are fighting to reform criminal justice techniques — including penmanship, fingerprints and bullet grooves that are based on thin and outdated science. And these methods may have ...

mandy.locke@newsobserver.com, joseph.neff@newsobserver.com Editor's note: A front-page story Aug. 14, 2010, about bullet analysis in a Pitt County case incorrectly characterized the notes taken by SBI ...