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The Latest on North Carolina's Crime Lab Scandal

By Steve Hall

"Strange lab 'secret'," is today's Raleigh News & Observer editorial. The wheels truly must be coming off at Attorney General Roy Cooper's office. Public confidence already was on the rocks after a string of embarrassing disclosures about the State Bureau of Investigation's crime lab and its "creative" handling of evidence. Now it turns out that the man Cooper chose to start fixing the lab decided not to take the job after all - and Cooper apparently didn't want the public to find out.Retired Court of Appeals Chief Judge Gerald Arnold certainly was entitled to change his mind before stepping into the post of interim crime lab director, as awkward as that was. When Cooper announced the appointment on Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).