“Hero” of the Phoenix Police Department Crime Lab Forced to Resign

Steve O’Dell has been in the news more than any other employee of the Phoenix Police Department Crime Lab in recent years. What’s dif­fer­ent about him, is that those arti­cles have been report­ing some­thing pos­i­tive. Mr. O’Dell is cred­ited with mod­ern­iz­ing the crime scene pro­cess­ing capa­bil­i­ties of the lab, and more impres­sively, guid­ing the

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Phoenix Crime Lab Labor Relations Tension Escalates

An arti­cle in the Arizona Republic indi­cates the prior accu­sa­tions relat­ing to the qual­ity of work per­formed at the Phoenix PD Crime Lab is more polit­i­cally moti­vated, based on a union try­ing to keep a group of employ­ees from leaving.

Stay tuned.

A Phoenix labor-relations board is sched­uled to hear tes­ti­mony Wednesday from police crime-lab employ­ees after the

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Phoenix Police Investigate Phoenix Crime Lab

Criminal defense attor­neys are going to love this.  Anytime you have a sit­u­a­tion where evi­dence is mis­han­dled, it ques­tions the reli­a­bil­ity of foren­sic test results.  Apparently the Phoenix Police Department is inves­ti­gat­ing claims that crime lab staff left evi­dence behind at crime scenes, and threw away fin­ger­print evidence.

 

PHOENIX — CBS 5 News obtained sworn affi­davits by

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