joe huffington served 23 years in prison for a crime he may not have committed because of mishandled were two hairs found at the scene, one on the bedsheet and one on the garter belt of the victim. that was the key evidence of the prosecution. that's what put him at the time and place of the murders. in 1999 an intern report found problems with what michael malone had done in the huffington case much. >> we are looking through a microscope. you don't know how many characteristics to match, you can choose it. it depends upon the person downing the analysis, not fact. standard. >>> we knew that there were problems with the technique. there are many documented cases where numbers, including michael malone, but not limited to michael malone, have matched carpet fibres to head hair. he had excluded hairs, without explaining why he excluded hairs. he matched hairs without explaining why. he hadn't tape hair samples from all the people who may have been in -- taken hair samples from all of the people that may have been in contact with the body. >>> results. >> absolutely. this is a great ex

. >> well, it's going to be fascinating, ezra and joe, to see what happens after you at vox have put these up. huffingtont has put them up. "washington post" is going to have one in the print edition of the newspaper tomorrow. that's going to be a big moment because every other time in the last several years that anyone has run any kind of image of this kind anywhere in the world, denmark, france, wherever you are, there has always been some kind of protest reaction. including some very very large protest reactions around the world at different times. and joe, you have to wonder what's coming next here. >> i don't know what's coming next. you know i think ezra put it really well. you know, flipping through as it were the images on vox today and it never occurred to me that vox would have been one of the sole publications to print them. i mean, the tragedy here is that they're images, they're cartoons, you know? i don't think they have to mean anything. and i think centering so much of our discussion on what is the response going to be is this okay, is it not, given that there are very real safety concern