San Francisco Backs Off on Moving Crime Lab out of the PD

San Francisco is shelv­ing the idea of mov­ing the crime lab out of the police depart­ment. The rea­son stated is not only do they plan on mov­ing the lab out of the police depart­ment fig­u­ra­tively, they also want to move it out lit­er­ally — as in build a new crime lab.

San Francisco super­vi­sors on Monday slowed

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San Francisco Prosecutor's Office Shake-up after 1700 Drug Cases Called into Question

Additional infor­ma­tion is com­ing out regard­ing the scope of Deborah Madden’s recent crim­i­nal his­tory con­vic­tion, drug/alcohol use, and drug evi­dence theft. It appears that upwards of 1,700 cases have had Ms. Madden’s involve­ment since her crim­i­nal domes­tic vio­lence con­vic­tion, pre­vi­ously not dis­closed to prosecutors.

The then chief of the drug crimes divi­sion of the prosecutor’s office

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SF Prosecutor Accuses Judge of Bias

What do you do when you get caught not play­ing by the rules? Accuse the umpire of apply­ing the rules unfairly. At least that’s what I saw the 7–9 year olds on my son’s base­ball team do last season.

Apparently San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris agrees, and has accused Judge Anne-Christine Massullo of

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More Than One SFPD Drug Chemist Skimming?

Talk about a defense attor­ney’s wildest dream! The arti­cle SFAppeal Online Newspaper seems to imply that Deborah Madden wasn’t the only drug chemist in the San Francisco PD crime lab skim­ming drugs. Only a thor­ough inves­ti­ga­tion will find out if these are truth­ful accu­sa­tions, or attempts to make her­self not look as bad.

This is just

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Crime Lab Staff to Take the 5th

Criminal defense attor­neys are always face road­blocks when they try to exer­cise their client’s con­sti­tu­tional right to con­front their accuser. In the case of breath alco­hol test­ing, this usu­ally means the defense isn’t allowed access to the “source code” for the breath tester…that is the com­puter pro­gram­ming that con­trols the behav­ior of the breath tester.

In

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