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Crime Lab Scandals to Force Reviews in San Francisco & Nebraska

By Steve Hall

The Recorder reports, "1,400 Narcotics Cases to Be Re-Evaluated due to San Francisco Crime Lab Scandal," by Kate Moser.   The San Francisco district attorney's office is combing through files in 1,400 cases -- the entire universe of open narcotics cases in the office -- to determine what can be saved and what needs to be dumped in the wake of an expanding scandal emanating from the police crime lab, a spokesman for the office said Monday."We're going through the police records that we have, test results, we're assessing everything," said Assistant District Attorney Brian Buckelew. "There's a taint here on this evidence. We're going to do the right thing and we're going to do it the right way...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2010 (boomark / email).