Kennedy Brewer's Case

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The forensic analysis and testimony in Kennedy Brewer’s trial was deeply flawed, in large part because of the expert witness, Dr. Michael West, a Mississippi dentist who testified for the prosecution in cases in other trials in nine different states. In Brewer’s trial, Dr. West, claimed that cuts on the victims’ bodies were human bite marks caused by only the two top teeth and that Brewer was the source of the alleged bite marks. However, even by the time of Brewer’s trial, West had already been widely discredited; he was the first member ever suspended by the American Board of Forensic Odontology. Regardless, prosecutors continued to use West as an expert for years and courts allowed his testimony. West has routinely collaborated with Steven
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