$1Million Outlay to Investigate Questioned Detroit Crime Lab Evidence

The City of Detroit will be pay­ing $1 Million to Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office to have one year’s worth of evi­dence inves­ti­gated. That’s a lot of money. This is the per­fect exam­ple of why it is bet­ter to pay a lit­tle extra up front, to have a suf­fi­cient num­ber of prop­erly trained lab­o­ra­tory analysts,

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More info on the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences

Apparently crim­i­nal defense attor­neys think highly of the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences (SWIFS). If you recall, we posted an entry a while back about SWIFS. Briefly an employee was ter­mi­nated for pur­port­edly not pass­ing train­ing mile­stones. The ex-employee con­tends he was fired for whistle-blowing about defi­cien­cies in the crime lab.

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Forensic Science Under the Microscope

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Ever since the NAS report was pub­lished, the pop­u­lar media has taken an about face in what news sto­ries they report. No longer are police crime labs por­trayed as hal­lowed halls con­tain­ing cru­saders pro­tect­ing the pub­lic from crim­i­nals. Now crime labs are described as lairs con­tain­ing bum­bling lack­eys for tyran­ni­cal police

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