Judge orders D.C. to pay $13.2 million in wrongful FBI hair conviction case - WP
Judge orders D.C. to pay $13.2 million in wrongful FBI hair conviction case Monday February 29 th , 2016 at 8:40 AM 1 Share Santae A. Tribble, right, seen with his son Santae Tribble Jr. in 2011, served 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit due to a flawed hair analysis by the FBI. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post) A D.C. Superior Court judge has ordered the District government to pay $13.2 million to Santae A. Tribble, who was jailed for 28 years after being wrongfully convicted of killing a Southeast Washington taxi driver in 1978. The award Friday brings to $39 million the damages amount the city has been ordered or agreed to pay over the past year to three District men wrongly imprisoned for decades. They were convicted at trial through exaggerated claims about the reliability of FBI forensic hair matches, a pattern uncovered by the D.C. Public Defender Service and featured in a series of articles in The Washington Post. [ FBI