Arizona DPS Crime Lab Budget Crisis

If AZ Prop 100 doesn’t pass, it will mean longer turn around at the state crime lab. Forensic sci­ence analy­sis costs money. If the state crime lab isn’t funded, agen­cies will have to find other cheaper (ie: pri­vate labs) alternatives:

If vot­ers fail to approve Proposition 100, the Arizona Department of Public Safety could lose

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FBI Called in to Investigate North Carolina Crime Lab

Testing cases going back 20 years is going to be expen­sive and time con­sum­ing. These errors could have been caught if the lab had a pol­icy in place for bet­ter dis­cov­ery. The United States has an adver­sar­ial legal sys­tem, a series of checks and bal­ances. As long as crime labs are con­trolled by prosecutorial

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Phoenix Crime Lab Labor Relations Tension Escalates

An arti­cle in the Arizona Republic indi­cates the prior accu­sa­tions relat­ing to the qual­ity of work per­formed at the Phoenix PD Crime Lab is more polit­i­cally moti­vated, based on a union try­ing to keep a group of employ­ees from leaving.

Stay tuned.

A Phoenix labor-relations board is sched­uled to hear tes­ti­mony Wednesday from police crime-lab employ­ees after the

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Close Crime Lab to Balance Budget?

You have to feel for the Fresno County Sheriff, but there seems to be a lot of “black or white” think­ing here as peo­ple pos­ture for the polit­i­cal bat­tle over the bud­get. Certainly clos­ing two floors of the prison, and releas­ing 500 felons early, dras­ti­cally lay­ing off deputies, or clos­ing the crime lab would help

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Phoenix Police Investigate Phoenix Crime Lab

Criminal defense attor­neys are going to love this.  Anytime you have a sit­u­a­tion where evi­dence is mis­han­dled, it ques­tions the reli­a­bil­ity of foren­sic test results.  Apparently the Phoenix Police Department is inves­ti­gat­ing claims that crime lab staff left evi­dence behind at crime scenes, and threw away fin­ger­print evidence.

 

PHOENIX — CBS 5 News obtained sworn affi­davits by

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