Sentences with phrase «federal crime labs»
The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.
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Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.
They use the program's full - fledged crime lab, as well as a Secret Service facility, to help local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies solve homicides and other crimes.
The US has 86 crime labs that carry out genetic analyses, but the federal government sets no common benchmarks for their work.
Forensics have been in the federal limelight since a 2009 National Research Council report found much of the science in crime labs wanting (C&EN, June 25, page 32).