It’s amazing to learn that only when the local news starts investigating, can the public learn that the manufacturer of the gas chromatograph, at the heart of the recent Scottsdale Crime Lab

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The “sequencing error” is just one of many repeating software related errors Scottsdale Crime Lab seems to suffer from.

“I didn’t have very much to drink at all, just a couple of these little tiny beers they had,” said Ryan, who asked we not use his last name.

He said he

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Jasper Brisbon, 32, wandered up to a couple late Friday at the Lynnewood Apartments as the pair spoke outside their unit. Brisbon, they told police, appeared to be

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Hundreds of drunken-driving cases from the past four years could be called into question if a legal effort challenging the accuracy of the Scottsdale Police Department’s blood-testing equipment is successful. Eleven felony DUI cases in Scottsdale have been

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1. DUI Blood Alcohol Results Tossed by Court as Unreliable
2. Colorado Springs Metro Crime Lab Blood Alcohol Results WRONG.
3. Charges dismissed after state lab mix-up

The best part of the story has to do with the methamphetamine in her butt-crack is only a footnote.

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Ms Walker said she picked brass shell casing fragments out of her skin as she rode the bus to the hospital.

Officers described her injuries as ‘superficial’ and not life threatening.

The simple

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But are police officers necessarily more trustworthy than alleged criminals? I think not. Not just because the police have a special inclination toward confabulation, but because, disturbingly, they have an incentive to lie. In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn’t

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Sauce for the goose or, home address and phone number of Journal-News publisher White Plains newspaper The Journal– News, a Gannett publication, has published the full name and address of every licensed pistol permit holder in three

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The firearm turned out to be a Crossman CO2 powered BB pistol. With some minor modifications, yes it was in fact “operational”.

I informed the attorney the evidence was operational, but not a “firearm”.

Then

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One major flaw in the movie, from a forensic aspect, is early in the movie when Bruce Wayne is reliving the night his parents were killed

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The average number of people shot in a mass shooting event when the shooter is stopped by law enforcement: 14. The average number of people

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The city attorney of San Bernardino is under scrutiny for telling residents to “lock their doors and load their guns” during a

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Either manipulating results to make false positives, or increasing amounts in order to obtain increased sentencing, the analyst (and to some extent the entire lab) stops being an advocate for the

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They won’t need to see bad driving. They won’t need to see stumbling. They won’t need to see any outward indications of the presence of alcohol.

In a paper that was published in the “International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics,” Greek

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Driving while texting is WORSE.

Driving while drunk AND texting is a sure fire way to die.

Ervin McKinness, a 21-year-old aspiring rapper, tweeted about driving drunk at 120 mph minutes before dying in a fiery one-car crash that killed the rapper and four others.

McKinness posted the now-ominous tweets about speeding

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Police say 18-year-old Michael Smeriglio first lied to police saying someone shot him while he was walking down the street. After being questioned by police he admitted to accidentally doing it himself.

Doctors say the bullet went

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Here’s the gist: The study followed 1,037 New Zealanders from birth through age 38, monitoring their IQs and marijuana usage throughout. IQ tests were administered first at age 13 (before the test subjects had started smoking pot), and again at 38, “after a a pattern

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Alyssa Gutierrez bravely defended her home and her life with her Mom’s rifle. She was not going to end up, if she could help it, another victim of criminal violence. She first tried

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A woman is in critical condition after she was stabbed outside her child’s school Tuesday morning.

The attack happened around 10:00 a.m. Tuesday outside the Bonham Academy

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An interesting argument at Tuesday’s City Council meeting was over who should pay for the El Paso Police Department’s

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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (CBS St. Louis) — A Nebraska school district asked a deaf preschooler to change his sign language name because they believe

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