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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe

Summary: Mark Lanterman, a Minnesota forensics expert who testified in more than 2,000 cases over 30 years, is under FBI investigation after attorney Sean Harrington alleged he lied under oath about degrees from Upsala College and postgraduate study at Harvard. Perkins Coie found no transcript record for Lanterman at Felician University, which holds Upsala's records, and reported that he left the Springfield Township Police Department with his personnel file and did not return it.

What's compelling: Hennepin County prosecutors are notifying parties in ten pending cases that they could not verify Lanterman's background, and former federal prosecutor Mark Rasch said defendants whose cases turned on a discredited expert's conclusions may have grounds for appeal - Stephen Allwine, convicted in 2018 on findings from 64 devices Lanterman examined, has already petitioned to revisit his case.

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