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Criminal defense attorneys are always face roadblocks when they try to exercise their client’s constitutional right to confront their accuser. In the case of breath alcohol testing, this usually means the defense isn’t allowed access to the “source code” for the breath tester…that is the computer programming that controls the behavior of the breath tester. In [Continue Reading Crime Lab Staff to Take the 5th…]  Steve O’Dell has been in the news more than any other employee of the Phoenix Police Department Crime Lab in recent years. What’s different about him, is that those articles have been reporting something positive. Mr. O’Dell is credited with modernizing the crime scene processing capabilities of the lab, and more impressively, guiding the [Continue Reading “Hero” of the Phoenix Police Department Crime Lab Forced to Resign…] Amazingly Michigan plans on diverting funds from the State Crime Lab to inspect buses. Didn’t they learn what happens to a poorly funded/run crime lab when the Detroit Police Department Crime Lab was shut down? A plan to fund school bus inspections with $900,000 from the state police crime lab budget is “like robbing Peter to [Continue Reading Michigan Plan to Divert Funds from State Crime Lab to Inspect Buses…] Brand new crime laboratory flooded. Makes you want to know who their builder was! SANTA CLARA COUNTY (KCBS) — A cracked seal in a rooftop pump has made a giant mess of Santa Clara County’s new $75 million crime lab. Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr said she doesn’t believe any evidence was [Continue Reading Santa Clara County Crime Lab Flooded…] After being closed, the Houston PD crime laboratory is back open. Police chief Harold Hurtt wrote an article for a local newspaper discussing what happened to cause the lab to close, and what’s happened since then. In the interests of fairness in future reporting, distinction should and must be made between past practices and current practices. [Continue Reading Houston Police Department Crime Lab Open for Business…] |
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