Military criminal defense attorneys contacted me to aide in the defense of a US serviceman who was charged with committing a drive-by shooting. I reviewed the case material, and said I didn’t think I would be able to help much, because the evidence I needed to examine had been destroyed when the government was collecting
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The following article can be viewed in full here. The article opens up with this statement: Get ready to trade your lab coat for a suit coat. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last Thursday will require crime lab analysts to appear in court and submit to cross-examination if their reports are entered into evidence. This ruling could have digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/general_sciences/MELENDEZ_DIAZ_v_MASSACHUSETTS’; In a community comment forum for forensic scientists, there was a comment from an analyst from another country, that stated they didn’t see what the big deal was I was recently required to come testify on an old case I worked for a local police department a number of years ago. The actual work I performed was hardly a “case breaker”. I simply looked at casings and projectiles recovered by police and inter-compared them, so see if they were fired from the same gun. digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/general_sciences/Casefile_Aim_High#’; |
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