‘Scent lineups’ spark dogfight over science

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 21:35 in Psychology & Sociology

The Innocence Project of Texas said Friday that scent identification lineups, in which trained dogs determine if a suspect's smell matches the smell of crime scene evidence, are based on faulty science and have led to a number of wrongful convictions.

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