“The court determines that ‘justice may not have been done’ at Perrot’s 1992 trial because of the introduction of hair evidence that in numerous and material respects exceeded the foundational science,” the judge writes. “In making that judgement, the court determines that it was not until decades after Perrot’s 1992 trial that errors in testimony on hair evidence came to be authoritatively recognized and addressed.”
The defendant’s attorney, Nicholas Perros, said: “This decision acknowledges that George never received a fair trial.”
The FBI analyst told the judge and a jury in 1992 that he could positively identify Perrot using just a single hair found at the home of the 78-year-old victim.