SF Police Chief Gascon Vows “Negligent” Police Officials Will Be Held Accountable

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.

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Closing NC:SBI Might Be Only Reasonable Solution

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.

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Firearms Identification Work at SBI Under Question As Well

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

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Local Reactions to the SBI Lab Review

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

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North Carolina Prosecutor to Review Death Penalty Cases

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

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