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No word on who “they” are, but the Police Chief in San Francisco vows police officials responsible for allowing the conditions that allowed for the recent drug lab fiasco will be held accountable. San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon says negligence by some police officials is partly to blame for a drug scandal at the city’s crime lab. Gascon The following article sums up the problems at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Closing the lab, and starting anew with a lab that isn’t so indoctrinated as an arm of the prosecution might be the only way for the public to have any faith in the results coming out of their state crime lab. A [Continue Reading Closing NC:SBI Might Be Only Reasonable Solution…] It seems that blood pattern recognition isn’t the only area at the North Carolina SBI crime lab that is under scrutiny. Beth Desmond looked through a microscope at two mangled bullets. It was the start of a 2006 murder trial in Pitt County, and prosecutors needed her help to fix a potentially crippling weakness in their case. They [Continue Reading Firearms Identification Work at SBI Under Question As Well…] It would appear everyone is having similar reactions to the results of the North Carolina SBI crime lab review. A review of the blood analysis unit at the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab found analysts omitted, overstated or falsely reported blood evidence in 230 cases – 190 of which went to trial. Of those, 80 of the defendants It’s good to know the prosecutor’s office is going to review death penalty cases. Last thing people want is another case where an innocent person is put to death over faulty forensic analysis. A North Carolina prosecutor says he will scour all past homicide cases in his district for questionable work by the State Bureau of [Continue Reading North Carolina Prosecutor to Review Death Penalty Cases…] |
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