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 ...

It’s a scandal that’s hitting in the heart of Oregon’s justice system. Nika Larsen, a forensic analyst with the Oregon State Police crime lab in Bend, is suspected of tampering with evidence.

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 ...

Kamala Harris was this city’s top prosecutor, running to become California’s elected attorney general, when a scandal stunned her office and threatened to upend her campaign. One of Har… ...