Local police tired of waiting on DNA evidence seek their own labs

So apparently another law enforcement agency is about to open it’s own crime lab – so much for people listening to the NAS report, and it’s recommendation for getting crime labs out of the hands of law enforcement and prosecutors to reduce institutional bias.

The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is scheduled to open its own $1

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Further Fallout from the Houston Crime Lab Scandal

The news that Houston Police Department has a DNA backlog is not surprising at all. In fact it should be expected, considering it was closed down for a significant period of time.

Seven years after the Houston Police Department crime lab scandal first broke, city officials acknowledged this week that nearly 4,000 rape kits and

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