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Orange County’s Informant Scandal Yields Evidence of Forensic Science Deception in Murder Trials

By R. Scott Moxley · OC Weekly · December 2017
Orange County’s Informant Scandal Yields Evidence of Forensic Science Deception in Murder Trials
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"My former colleague at OC Weekly , R. Scott Moxley, is the most underrated investigative reporter in the United States. His work at the paper over the past 21 years has resulted in a six-year prison sentence for our former sheriff, the end of congressional and state assemblymen’s careers, and the freeing of at least three people wrongfully convicted of crimes. Last year alone, six murder convictions covered by Moxley were overturned."

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