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Science Thursdays: Crime Labs Under Investigation for Inconsistent Results
Posted: March 24, 2011 3:21 pm
As a result of inconsistent crime lab work, the US Army joins New York and North Carolina in instituting a review of cases, and courts in the US and UK consider how to deal with weak forensic evidence. Here’s a roundup of forensic news:
The US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory kept a three-year investigation of its poor laboratory practices secret.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has identified 74 cases on top of the original 229 slated for review as a result of the NC crime laboratory’s poor scientific work.
A New York judge has been selected to preside over the legal challenges to evidence processed in the now shuttered drug unit of the Nassau County Crime Laboratory.
In separate cases, Pennsylvania courts will hear challenges on arson and fingerprint evidence.
UK courts will now consider a pre-trial reliability test for the admissibility of forensic evidence.
State budget cuts could eliminate 181 of the 600 staff at New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
A University of Virginia professor who studies wrongful convictions will release a new book this spring titled, “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong.”