Detroit Crime Lab to Re-open?

The Detroit Crime Lab might be re-opening. If it does, it will be under the Michigan State Police, not Detroit PD.

If city offi­cials open a crime lab in a new police head­quar­ters, the facil­ity won’t be staffed by Detroit police.

Detroit police tell the Detroit Free Press for a story Tuesday that Michigan State Police will

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$1Million Outlay to Investigate Questioned Detroit Crime Lab Evidence

The City of Detroit will be pay­ing $1 Million to Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office to have one year’s worth of evi­dence inves­ti­gated. That’s a lot of money. This is the per­fect exam­ple of why it is bet­ter to pay a lit­tle extra up front, to have a suf­fi­cient num­ber of prop­erly trained lab­o­ra­tory analysts,

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147 cases in police lab mess called ‘tip of iceberg’

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State Police must rean­a­lyze Detroit’s mis­han­dled evidence

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy says her office has iden­ti­fied 147 cases of con­victed and impris­oned peo­ple that will require the retest­ing of evi­dence as part of the inves­ti­ga­tion into the now-closed Detroit police crime lab — unveil­ing the first of poten­tially thou­sands of cases that are at

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Detroit crime lab review: 147 cases need retesting

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DETROIT (AP) — Authorities have iden­ti­fied 147 cases of con­victed and impris­oned peo­ple that will require retest­ing of evi­dence as part of a search for cases where the now-shuttered Detroit police lab may have mis­judged results.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy told the Detroit Free Press for a story Sunday the num­ber rep­re­sents the “tip

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