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Crime Labs: An Arm of Law Enforcement

By Aaron

Criminal defense law often puts the attorney at odds with a scientist. This is not a good match-up. Lawyers are seen as advocates for their clients. Scientist are perceived as unbiased seekers of truth. As we know, this is not always the case. Seattle criminal defense attorneys are dealing with this issue in DUI cases that involve the Gordon-Crime Lab scandal. In addition, numerous cases throughout the United States are being challenged because of faulty bullet lead analysis done by FBI. Specifically, the National Academy of Sciences said that decades of FBI statements to jurors linking a particular bullet to those found in a suspect's gun or cartridge box were so overstated that such testimony should be considered "misleading under federal rules of evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Washington State Criminal Defense on November 19, 2007 (boomark / email).