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Widespread Failures at Crime Labs Continue to Plague Criminal Justice System

Loaded on Dec. 7, 2016 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News December, 2016, page 22
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Evidence, DNA Testing/Samples, Wrongful Conviction, FBI. Location: United States of America.

Crime labs nationwide continue to face seemingly intractable problems – particularly in terms of unreliable forensic evidence testing and being influenced by law enforcement and prosecutorial bias. Despite efforts at reform, and efforts to implement technological advances, the field of criminal forensic science seems mired in incompetence and corruption.

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