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forensic oversight failures

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Our good friends at the Innocence Project note here the failure of oversight at forensic labs: An 84-page report released today by the Innocence Project finds that the U.S. Department of Justice is failing to ensure that forensic negligence and misconduct are properly investigated. Nearly five years ago, Congress passed legislation to improve forensic oversight, but today’s report shows that the federal government’s poor management of the program has kept serious problems in crime labs across the country from being addressed. Read the executive summary and download the full report here. Over the last five years, all 50 states have received federal forensic funds and nearly $100 million has been dispersed in all, but the Department of Justice has not enforced the oversight requirement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).