Science Thursday
07.28.11
DNA problems were discovered this week in cases in the U.S. and abroad and new information raised doubts about a New York crime lab. Here’s a roundup of this week’s forensics news:
An investigation by the Long Island Press suggests some of Nassau County’s top law enforcement and governmental officials
may have known about the Police Crime Lab’s problems
long before they publicly acknowledged.
A Las Vegas man
was awarded $1.5 million
for spending nearly four years behind bars after he was wrongfully convicted based on a DNA lab mix-up.
And the analyst responsible for the mistake resigne
d.
An independent report
found that international DNA protocols were ignored and basic errors were made by the DNA expert in the Amanda Knox murder trial in Italy.
Detroit has
the largest known backlog
of untested sexual assault evidence kits.
A South Carolina lawsuit questions
whether an autopsy report is a private medical file or a public record
.
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