Dozens of crime lab scandals have erupted around the U.S. over the last decade that have required thousands of cases…
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The nation’s crime labs are no strangers to scandal, says NPR. Last year in Massachusetts, bogus testing by chemist Annie…
Unlike the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. in real life, crime scenes don't always yield compelling forensic evidence and…
After 12 years and $785 million in federal funding to reduce a DNA testing backlog, a serious problem continues to…
In a column in the Detroit Free Press, Michigan Law School professors David A. Moran and Samuel R. Gross describe…
U.S. News & World Report has taken its turn at the “C.S.I. Effect” story in a cover article. “Jurors are…
More than two years after rumblings of trouble at the Houston Police Department crime lab, state lawmakers are poised to…
The nation's DNA crime labs police themselves largely through an honor system. In the last of three editorials on DNA…
Police crime lab supervisors are refusing some requests for genetic analysis because they are so overwhelmed and understaffed, the Los…