FSN: Forensic Science News » Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin DNA Backlog is GONE! http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/wisconsin-dna-backlog-is-gone/ http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/wisconsin-dna-backlog-is-gone/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:00:40 +0000 Forensics Guy http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/?p=1135 Excellent work Wisconsin. They were able to successfully eliminate their DNA backlog. How did they do it? Simple. They hired the number of forensic scientists to took to process the volume of work they had.

They could have eliminated their backlog even sooner (they started real attempts to reduce it

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One of those disciplined is Dirk Janssen, the chemistry supervisor at the state crime lab.

In an August reprimand, lab Director Jana Champion

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“We have reason to believe that Walter Ellis convinced another inmate to give a DNA sample and an accompanying fingerprint of the other inmate because he did not want to give a

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“We don’t think the Melendez-Diaz decision will have a

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