National institute could fix crime-lab deficiencies

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Peter Neufield, co-director of the Innocence Project, points to the recent Supreme Court deci­sion on requir­ing foren­sic sci­en­tists to tes­tify, and Justice Scalia’s com­ment on “defi­cien­cies” in crime labs, as fur­ther evi­dence of the neces­sity of a National Institute of Forensic Science.

Some of the rea­sons listed are “… vast disparities

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National agency sought for forensic sciences

A fed­eral inqui­si­tion has deter­mined that crime labs across the coun­try need to be over­seen by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment. Was the report based on the inves­ti­ga­tors look­ing for their next job, or what they feel is actu­ally what’s best for the crim­i­nal jus­tice system?

I agree that crime labs need to be pried out of the

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