FSN: Forensic Science News » San Francisco http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes and Opinion by a Real Forensic Scientist Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:20:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 San Francisco Prosecutor’s Office shake-up after 1700 Drug Cases Called into Question http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/san-francisco-prosecutors-office-shake-up-after-1700-drug-cases-called-into-question/ http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/san-francisco-prosecutors-office-shake-up-after-1700-drug-cases-called-into-question/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:00:53 +0000 Forensics Guy http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/?p=1204 Additional information is coming out regarding the scope of Deborah Madden’s recent criminal history conviction, drug/alcohol use, and drug evidence theft. It appears that upwards of 1,700 cases have had Ms. Madden’s involvement since her criminal domestic violence conviction, previously not disclosed to prosecutors.

The then chief of the drug crimes division of

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Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn is ramping up her use of San Francisco’s troubled crime lab in her

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A new proposal before San Francisco leaders seeks to make the city’s crime laboratory independent of the police department, in light of recent problems

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