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The National Law Journal has a web-only dispatch, "Report recommends independent forensics labs," written by Vesna Jaksic.States should require forensic laboratories to be independent from law and prosecutorial agencies and create oversight commissions to enforce quality standards, according to a new report. Those are among the recommendations issued in a new report by The Justice Project, a Washington-based nonpartisan organization that works to fight injustice. The report points out that forensic science can be a powerful tool in criminal investigations, but can also contribute to wrongful convictions. ?While errors in forensic analysis and forensic expert testimony are a leading contributing factor in wrongful convictions, a series of reform measures could dramatically reduce such errors,? the report said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 26, 2008 (boomark / email).