http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/santa-clara-county-da-criticized-for-crime-lab-failures/ and Opinion by a Real Forensic Scientist Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:26:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/santa-clara-county-da-criticized-for-crime-lab-failures/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Bench Notes: CSI Episode Reviews » Forensic Science Under the Microscope Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:58:34 +0000 http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/?p=356#comment-141 [...] This article blasts the Santa Clara County Prosecutor’s Office for their own internal investigation of crime lab errors, but shouldn’t a lab with perceived problems be investigated externally? Certainly a lab should investigate itself internally, but for public confidence it needs to be investigated externally. It should also not be investigated by other crime labs, such as an ASCLD/LAB audit, but rather a completely independent group. [...] […] This article blasts the Santa Clara County Prosecutor’s Office for their own internal investigation of crime lab errors, but shouldn’t a lab with perceived problems be investigated externally? Certainly a lab should investigate itself internally, but for public confidence it needs to be investigated externally. It should also not be investigated by other crime labs, such as an ASCLD/LAB audit, but rather a completely independent group. […]

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