Fairness Needed In Forensic Labs

When a lab has a pol­icy to delib­er­ately obfus­cate the results of foren­sic exam­i­na­tions, in order to sup­port the prosecution’s the­ory of the case, that’s gross insti­tu­tional bias.

They aren’t even try­ing to pre­tend to be fair, impar­tial scientists.

It might be time to con­sider hir­ing new employ­ees who haven’t been tainted with such unpro­fes­sional attitudes.

A judge should

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News Laws Passed to Correct SBI Issues

Isn’t it a sad state of affairs when the state of North Carolina leg­is­la­ture has to make it ille­gal for cops and pros­e­cu­tors NOT to do their jobs honestly?

The House passed leg­is­la­tion Tuesday designed to upgrade oper­a­tions in the state crime lab.

H27, the Forensic Sciences Act, passed sec­ond and third read­ings with no debate and no opposition

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SBI Agent Termination Over Work Product

One has to ques­tion what was hap­pen­ing and how it could have con­tin­ued unde­tected for so long, if an ana­lyst was appar­ently writ­ing false reports. Not just mak­ing errors in their analy­sis, lab ana­lysts are human after all, but to write a report that con­tra­dicts the results of your analy­sis has all the tell-tale signs

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Closing NC:SBI Might Be Only Reasonable Solution

The fol­low­ing arti­cle sums up the prob­lems at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Closing the lab, and start­ing anew with a lab that isn’t so indoc­tri­nated as an arm of the pros­e­cu­tion might be the only way for the pub­lic to have any faith in the results com­ing out of their state crime lab.

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Firearms Identification Work at SBI Under Question As Well

It seems that blood pat­tern recog­ni­tion isn’t the only area at the North Carolina SBI crime lab that is under scrutiny.

Beth Desmond looked through a micro­scope at two man­gled bullets.

It was the start of a 2006 mur­der trial in Pitt County, and pros­e­cu­tors needed her help to fix a poten­tially crip­pling weak­ness in their case. They

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