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Blood Test Error Nearly Sends Man to Prison

By Lawrence Taylor

I’ve posted in the past about various problems, such as fermentation and coagulation, in analyzing human blood samples for alcohol content.   But human error in the lab is just as insidious.  I mentioned in an earlier post one of my firm’s cases in which we had our client’s blood sample analyzed for DNA — which proved that the blood tested was not our client’s.  See How Do You Know the Blood They Tested Was Yours?  Human error in the crime lab happens more often than is appreciated — and is extremely hard to detect. Following is another recent example of a lab screwup that almost sent an innocent man to prison for a long stretch.  Fortunately, one of those "obstructionist" defense attorneys had the blood restested, forcing the prosecution to have it retested as well...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).