Man who won new trial due to faulty hair evidence seeks bail
New Bedford, Mass. (AP) — A man who was convicted of rape and spent 30 years in prison based in part on a single strand of hair is set to go before a judge to ask to be released on bail while he awaits a new trial.
George Perrot was convicted of raping a 78-year-old woman in 1985. A judge ruled last month that an FBI agent's testimony that a hair found in the woman's home matched Perrot was faulty.
The U.S. Justice Department in 2014 listed Perrot's case as one of hundreds that involved erroneous statements from FBI agents about microscopic hair analysis. The FBI now acknowledges that the science is not conclusive.
Perrot has always denied raping the woman.
A bail hearing is scheduled for Monday in New Bedford Superior Court.
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