Not exact matches
The Monroe County
Crime Lab reports nearly a third of the heroin - related cases
tested since September of 2016 showed at least a trace of Fentanyl.
Once a rape kit is collected, it's sent to the Erie County Central Police Services
Crime Lab for
testing.
You can't get
lab tests in New York that you can get in New Jersey for some strange reason and I often wonder if it's organized
crime or some other reason.
In an Ikea - sized warehouse turned de facto
crime lab last fall, professor Gregory Cizek got his first look at the Atlanta
test papers that would beget an education scandal of historic proportions.
As author Sue Coletta let us know, «A
crime writer who's spent thousands
testing each site shares her spreadsheet at Murder
Lab.»
An excellent resource for
crime... a
crime writer who's spent thousands
testing each site shares her spreadsheet at Murder
Lab: http://www.murderlab.com.
'' (Even if) you are using the Department of Justice state
crime lab for all
testing, the problem is the DOJ does not have instruments to do quantitative information on marijuana or hemp,» he said.
Reporting in the Phoenix - based Arizona Republic newspaper described how 11 DUI cases have been consolidated into one action, questioning «whether a
crime -
lab technician's decision to bootstrap old software onto a new blood -
testing machine in 2009 — and the faulty results that allegedly arose from that decision — has affected evidence handled by Scottsdale's
crime lab.»
The
crime lab, accredited by ASCLD / LAB since 1988, had been inspected five times during the period in which the serology section was found to be misrepresenting blood test resul
lab, accredited by ASCLD /
LAB since 1988, had been inspected five times during the period in which the serology section was found to be misrepresenting blood test resul
LAB since 1988, had been inspected five times during the period in which the serology section was found to be misrepresenting blood
test results.
The Nassau County
crime lab was shut down in February 2011 after county officials learned police had known for months about serious problems with its drug analysis
testing without informing anyone.
A few months before that, the St. Paul, Minn., police department's
crime lab suspended its drug analysis and fingerprint examination operations after two assistant public defenders raised serious concerns about the reliability of its
testing practices.
One urges governments at all levels to adopt pretrial discovery procedures requiring
crime labs to produce «comprehensive and comprehensible» reports that spell out the procedures used in an analysis; the results of the analysis; the identity, qualifications and opinions of the analyst and anybody else who participated in the
testing; and any additional information that could bear on the validity of the
test results.
Nobody really knows how many
crime lab failures there are because we usually only hear about them when somebody who has been wrongfully convicted of a
crime is exonerated through DNA
testing.
There's no reason, Giannelli says, why the clinical
lab that does Pap smear
tests should be held to higher standards than the
crime lab, whose work could put a defendant on death row.
Last February, the National Academy of Science issued a report criticizing the sloppy practices of
crime labs, imprecise scientific
tests, and the exaggeration in court of the scientific reliability of results.