Showing posts with label crime labs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime labs. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Taking away freedom on the cheap

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One of our worst nightmares is being wrongly arrested by the police and getting lost in the criminal (in)justice system. Thanks to a cheap d...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

We'll let you know if it's something we think you should know about

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Exactly how does a lab analyst, at an accredited lab, record the wrong name on at least 350 lab samples? How does that same lab analyst lose...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Scientific fraud in Massachusetts affects over 40,000 defendants

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If ever more evidence was needed that scientific evidence in criminal cases needs to be scrutinized more than it is, we have the story of An...
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Shielding the truth

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Later today the Texas Forensic Science Commission will meet in Austin. One of the items on the agenda will be the scandal at the DPS crime l...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Dry labbing it, baby

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Science. Chemistry. Laboratory. When you see or hear those words you think of folks with advanced degrees wearing smocks and goggles h...
Monday, July 16, 2012

FBI to review thousands of cases for faulty forensics

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Oops. Now the FBI is reviewing thousands of cases dating back to 1985 to determine if anyone was wrongly convicted as the result of hair a...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

More fun with forensics

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So, let's pretend that you're the head of a state forensic sciences board and you receive a complaint from an analyst at a laborator...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Anatomy of a crime (lab)

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A source who shall remain nameless provided me with some very interesting reading material after reading my post about the accreditation of ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

You can get the gold plaque for a few dollars more

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We're accredited, you see. That means what comes out of our lab is reliable. We have strict quality control regimens and we verify all o...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Indiana crime lab miscues cast doubt on convictions

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There's a tempest a-brewing in Indiana following the release of a report by the Indiana Supreme Court stating that the state's crim...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Mayor wants to build new crime lab

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Harris County already has a crime lab. It's called the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences . It was created out of the old medi...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Working blind

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Ask any scientist and she'll tell you that the best result from an experiment is often the one that disproves the hypothesis being teste...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Crime lab loses federal funding

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The honeymoon for Sam Houston State's Regional Crime Lab in The Woodlands is now over . The lab was opened with the help of a federal ...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Into the belly of the beast

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The other day I had the opportunity to go on a tour of the DPS Houston Crime Lab up on the northwest side of town. I would like to thank Mr....
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Contaminated with bias

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After you consume alcohol, your body begins the process of absorption and then elimination. The alcohol is absorbed by the blood through the...
Monday, January 31, 2011

North Carolina crime lab withheld test results in over 200 cases

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Never forget who runs the "crime labs" in most jurisdictions. In most instances they are under the control of a local or state pol...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

City to spend $3 million to study police fingerprint unit

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Updating a post from earlier this month about problems with the Houston Police Department's fingerprint unit , Houston City Council has...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Former Dallas crime lab employee to file whistleblower suit against lab

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A former forensic biologist in the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science (SWIFS) lab in Dallas has announced he will file a "whist...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

A couple of random thoughts

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The Detroit Police Crime Lab has been shuttered after the Michigan State Police exposed serious problems with the firearms lab.  Detroit...