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Arizona DPS Crime Lab Budget Crisis

Forensics Guy — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:00:29 +0000

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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

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FBI Called in to Investigate North Carolina Crime Lab

Forensics Guy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:00:27 +0000

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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

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Phoenix Crime Lab Labor Relations Tension Escalates

Forensics Guy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:00:42 +0000

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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

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Close Crime Lab to Balance Budget?

Forensics Guy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:00:42 +0000

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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

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Phoenix Police Investigate Phoenix Crime Lab

Forensics Guy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:16:19 +0000

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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

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Phoenix PD Crime Lab — Most Advanced in the Country

Forensics Guy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:00:32 +0000

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Apparently the Phoenix PD Crime Lab is the most advanced crime lab in the country, so says supervisor Steve O’Dell.

“This lab is one of, if not the most advanced crime labs in the country,” said Crime Scene Section Supervisor Steve O’Dell…

I personally challenge Steve O’Dell’s “most advanced crime lab in the country” to

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Funding sought for DPS crime lab

Forensics Guy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:05:57 +0000

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The solution to the state crime lab’s budget deficit? Send the bill to speeders and drunk-drivers. There isn’t a conflict of interest in prosecutors and police scientists directly benefiting from guilty DUI verdicts, and speeding is there? Well there will be if the legislature gets it’s way.

In summary, in order

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National agency sought for forensic sciences

Forensics Guy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:31:12 +0000

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A federal inquisition has determined that crime labs across the country need to be overseen by the federal government. Was the report based on the investigators looking for their next job, or what they feel is actually what’s best for the criminal justice system?

I agree that crime labs need to be pried

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Prosecutors Move To Seize Control of Crime Lab

Forensics Guy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:32:16 +0000

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digg_url = 'http://digg.com/general_sciences/Showdown_over_DNA_lab_reflects_national_debate_Los_Angeles#'; The Orange County Prosecutor’s Office move to wrest control of the crime lab away from the sheriff’s department. While outsiders sometimes point out that having a crime lab under the control of a police agency can lead to lab staff being pressured to bias their opinions, or perhaps even those

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Yet Another Article About the CSI Effect

Forensics Guy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:21:23 +0000

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digg_url = 'http://digg.com/television/Prime_time_pushes_trend_in_crime_forensics#'; An excellent article reiterating the effects TV shows like CSI are having on crime lab caseloads, juror opinions, as well as new defense attorney tactics.

Original article here.

Prime time pushes trend in crime forensics By Josh Mitchell • Staff Writer

Waynesville defense attorney Don Patten has noticed an interesting trend among jurors in recent

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