Sentences with phrase «crime lab scandals»

But Keaton says that crime lab scandals fall into two categories: those involving fraud or other egregious misconduct, which are few and far between but suggest a complete breakdown in the integrity of a lab; and those based on human error, which are far more common but much easier to identify and correct.

Meanwhile, the drumbeat of crime lab scandals goes on.

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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.

Even the much vaunted FBI crime lab, long considered the nation's premier forensic facility, has been rocked by scandal: first in its explosives unit, then its DNA unit, then its comparative bullet - lead analysis unit, and most recently in its hair microscopy unit.

Such scandals have been occurring with mind - numbing frequency since 1993, when the long - running fraud perpetrated by former West Virginia state police crime lab serologist Fred Zain first came to light.

As bad as that scandal was, it pales in comparison with one uncovered the year before at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation's crime lab.

But the ABA Journal counted dozens of scandals of all shapes and sizes in both accredited and unaccredited crime labs from one end of the country to the other in the last decade alone.