He has done a great deal of work to correct the tragedy of wrongful convictions based on faulty forensic evidence.

In an interview, William J. Bennett, President Bush's adviser on drug policy, said the report's findings were based on faulty evidence.

As later historical records of rainfall indicated, the theory was based on faulty evidence arising from brief climatological fluctuations.

The court said the case would be returned to a lower court because of incomplete and faulty evidence.

The capital punishment system in states throughout the country is plagued with legal incompetence, unscrupulous trial tactics and faulty evidence.

In the years that followed, a substantial amount of controversy emerged over the case, ranging from allegations of faulty evidence and questionable eyewitness testimony to an unfair trial.

In Europe and North America, a growing number of revisionist "historians" claim that many assumptions about the Holocaust are based on faulty or insufficient evidence.

The jury decision came at the end of a three-month trial that had already produced acquittals of two other defendants by the judge because of faulty evidence.

The verdict was overturned the next year by President Chester A. Arthur on the ground of faulty evidence.

Chief Gates said the verdict was based on faulty evidence.