Charges dismissed after state lab mix-up

A foren­sic scientist’s worst night­mare — get­ting sam­ples (or sam­ple results) mixed up.

Don’t say it can’t hap­pen, just hope it only hap­pens as rarely as it is discovered/reported. It very well might be much more common.

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Original arti­cle posted here.

Tooele County pros­e­cu­tors on Wednesday dis­missed auto­mo­bile homi­cide charges against a Tooele man after dis­cov­er­ing a

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