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The Worsening Massachusetts Crime Lab Scandal Is Just the Beginning How to reform the nation’s forensic labs. By Brandon L. Garrett and Peter Stout. May 11, 2021 11:43 AM.
Seven years after the Houston Police Department crime lab scandal first broke, city officials acknowledged this week that nearly 4,000 rape kits and other crime evidence remain untested for DNA.
The scandal, which culminated in a former police crime lab technician pleading no contest to a misdemeanor cocaine possession charge later expunged from her record and Harris dismissing roughly ...
But for much of 2010, the crime lab scandal pitted them against each other. Harris was elected district attorney in 2003 and reelected in 2007. As a candidate for attorney general, ...
Now the 60-year-old technician and the obscure police crime lab where she worked for 29 years stand at the center of a scandal that has led to the dismissal of hundreds of criminal cases and ...
A decade-old scandal at a Massachusetts crime lab — which led authorities to dismiss tens of thousands of drug convictions — may involve wrongdoing by more people than was previously known ...
According to District Attorney Dan Rubinstein, no cases in Mesa County were affected by recent issues with the Colorado ...
State lawmakers wade into a scandal at Colorado's state crime lab 03:38. Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the Colorado State Capitol have joined forces on a bill they hope restores trust in ...
But for much of 2010, the crime lab scandal pitted them against each other. Harris was elected district attorney in 2003 and reelected in 2007. As a candidate for attorney general, ...
The scandal, which culminated in a former police crime lab technician pleading no contest to a misdemeanor cocaine possession charge later expunged from her record and Harris dismissing roughly ...
A decade-old scandal at a Massachusetts crime lab — which led authorities to dismiss tens of thousands of drug convictions — may involve wrongdoing by more people than was previously known ...