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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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 years.
They are hungry
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