Lawyers and Judges consider the “CSI effect” in Ohio, a Texas analyst is being sued for misrepresenting the results of a drug test, and problems at a Minnesota lab cast doubt on thousands of cases. Here’s this week’s round up of forensic news:
Lawyers and judges in Ohio
discuss whether there is a “CSI effect”
altering jurors expectations
The Texas analyst handling most of the drug testing for the Dallas County family courts system
faces a lawsuit from a father involved a custody dispute
who alleges that the analyst misrepresented the results of a drug test.
Problems at the St. Paul Police Department Crime Laboratory have
cast doubt on forensic results in thousands of cases
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News 07.26.12
Science Thursday – July 26, 2012
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