A man who has spent 30 years behind bars for a 1985 rape will get a whole new trial, since the hair analysis used to convict him has since been proven to be junk science, a Massachusetts judge ruled last week.
The decision could be the beginning of a wave of reevaluations of cases involving the method, which has since become a major scandal for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
George D. Perrot was arrested for break-in and rape of an elderly woman in Springfield. He was convicted in 1992 based on the hair analysis,