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More people accused by dog 'scent lineups' freed, but FBI now using technique

Yet more people were identified this week who'd been falsely accused by dogs in "scent lineups"after the Innocence Project of Texas released a new report (pdf) on Fort Bend Sheriff's Deputy Keith Pikett and his bloodhounds. The Houston Chronicle describes the case of Curvis Bickham ("Scent lineups may be failing smell test," Sept. 27), where the defendant spent eight months in jail on capital charges:?I lost my home, I lost my business, I lost my reputation,? Bickham said. ?I have three little boys depending on me ? ages 6, 8 and 9 ? and they charge me with the most heinous thing they can charge a man with.?Bickham, 49, gets emotional in the retelling of the October 2008 arrest and the painful months that followed before charges were dropped for lack of evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 27, 2009 (boomark / email).