| First Name | Kirk |
| Last Name | Odom |
| Year of Conviction | 1981 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2012 |
| Testing inculpated culprit | Cold Hit |
| State of Conviction | District of Columbia |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Trial |
| Type of Crime | Rape |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | Black |
| Juvenile | No |
| Did the defendant testify at trial? | Yes |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| Type of Forensic Evidence |
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| Types of Flawed Forensics |
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| Reason why invalid | (5) Non-numerical experience and probability claim |
| Brief Quote / Description of Testimony | FBI Special Agent testified hair was microscopically similar to Odom’s hair “meaning that the samples were indistinguishable.” He found such hairs only “eight or 10 times in the past 10 years, while performing thousands of analyses.” |
| Identity of eyewitness |
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| Highest level reached | NR |
| Citations to judicial opinions | Odom v. U.S., 464 U.S. 1010 (1983) |