Ethics

Another Corrupt and Inaccurate Crime Lab

By Ed Brayton

Last year the crime lab for the entire city of Detroit was shut down because of an extraordinary error rate that required the evaluation and retrials for hundreds of convicted defendants. Then a Colorado crime lab was so rife with errors that they had to reopen more than 80 cases of drunk driving. Now a new report concludes that the New York state crime lab may be worse than those two combined. The New York Times reports:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).