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NC's local prosecutors urging full audit of suspect state criminal lab work

By Douglas A. Berman

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There's lots of interesting and important criminal justice action and debate in North Carolina these days. In addition to racial disparity debates roiling the administration of the death penalty, there is a broader on-going controversy involving the state's criminal justice lab. This local article from this past weekend, which is headlined "DAs demand full SBI audit," provides some of the basics: The N.C. Conference of District Attorneys wants a thorough accounting of all the problems at the State Bureau of Investigation crime lab. The district attorneys say they want an independent audit of all sections of the forensic lab so they might feel confident of the work they are presenting to juries. "Restoring the public's confidence not only in the SBI lab, but our entire system of justice, is our paramount concern, and a full scale audit of the lab is a step in the right direction," said Seth Edwards, president of the conference and the district attorney in Beaufort County...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).