Melendez-Diaz Under Attack by Prosecutors

Apparently pros­e­cu­tors don’t like crim­i­nal defense attor­neys to cross-examine foren­sic sci­en­tists. They’d rather just have a piece of paper in court that can’t be cross-examined. To that goal the recent Melendez-Diaz deci­sion is up for review.

Prosecutors hope that the new Justice Sotomayor (an ex-prosecutor her­self) will side with them, throw due process out the window

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DUI Attorney Interviewed Regarding Blood Test Errors

If you recall a while back there was break­ing news about the Colorado Springs Crime Lab rean­a­lyz­ing all their 2009 blood alco­hol cases after find­ing errors that showed an ongo­ing high bias.

Below is an inter­view of a promi­nent Colorado Springs DUI Attorney Timothy R. Bussey.

Timothy R. Bussey’s phone started ring­ing when Colorado Springs Police announced in December

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Sheriff Obtains 3D Laser Scanner for Crime Scenes

Imagine pros­e­cu­tors and crim­i­nal defense attor­neys being able to vir­tu­ally walk a jury around a crime scene, so demon­strate their case. Seems that a North Carolina Sheriff’s Department is get­ting their hands on tech­nol­ogy capa­ble of doing just that.

The Iredell County com­mis­sion­ers had a diverse array of mat­ters come before them for action at

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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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How To Find the Right Phoenix DUI Attorney

Part of my prac­tice as a DUI expert wit­ness involves work­ing with Phoenix DUI attor­neys.  Everything from case reviews, to help­ing write reports detail­ing the strengths and weak­nesses of the pros­e­cu­tor and defense attorney’s cases, to expert wit­ness DUI tes­ti­mony. Regardless of how skilled and knowl­edge­able your crim­i­nal defense attor­ney is in DUI defense, many times

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