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Zain Fallout Continues
Loaded on March 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 24
Fred Zain was a crime lab serologist, who tested evidence for the West Virginia state police from 1979 to 1989, and was chief of serology his last five years. During that time Zain falsified evidence and testified about the results of tests he never performed.
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Settlements,
Sentencing,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Locations:
Texas,
West Virginia.
In 1989, Zain took a ...
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