Numerous news sources in Colorado are reporting about a series of erroneously high blood alcohol results in DUI cases that were reported by the crime lab. The Colorado Gazette published the following:
Prosecutors have begun contacting lawyers for 82 defendants whose drunken driving charges were based in part upon incorrect blood alcohol tests by the
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A forensic scientist’s worst nightmare – getting samples (or sample results) mixed up.
Don’t say it can’t happen, just hope it only happens as rarely as it is discovered/reported. It very well might be much more common.
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Original article posted here.
Tooele County prosecutors on Wednesday dismissed automobile homicide charges against a Tooele man after
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