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In The News

2016-05-27 | Wrongly Convicted on Bite-Marks, Man Exonerated after 19 Years
The reversal comes almost a decade after the forensic odontologist recanted his original testimony, saying he wasn’t even sure if the lesion on the victim’s hand was a human bite mark.

2016-05-25 | Egyptian blue delivers fingerprint boost to modern forensic science
Their work showed Egyptian blue, the earliest known synthetic pigment, can double as a luminescent dusting powder that reveals print marks on patterned coatings, such as polymer currency notes, and highly reflective materials.

2016-05-23 | Big-picture solution needed in drug lab scandals
THE COMMONWEALTH’S DRUG lab scandal widened in scope this month with revelations about the misdeeds of Sonja Farak, a state chemist who regularly got high on the job by dipping into drug samples and stores of evidence. For nearly eight years, according to an investigation by the attorney general’s office, Farak smoked crack cocaine in the Amherst lab, usually cooked up from evidence submitted by police, and availed herself of daily hits of methamphetamine.

2016-05-19 | Defense questions Manchester police competency in Cooper trial
Hess, Seletzky and Harry all testified that the lab that runs the fingerprinting is run by the Maryland State Police, with Harry explaining that it can be an average wait of 18 months before the lab can process the prints. Despite the repeated answer that fingerprinting can take more than a year, Eldridge appeared frustrated that the police were content with waiting.

2016-05-17 | The False Promise of DNA Testing
Christy Kim was fired from the Houston crime lab, but reinstated after her lawyer argued that her errors—which ranged from how she had separated out the complex mixture to how she had reported the odds of a random match—were a product of systemic failures that included inadequate supervision. (Kim could not be reached for comment.) Sutton’s case became one of the central pillars of a public inquiry into practices at the lab. “The system failed at multiple points,” the head of the inquiry, Michael Bromwich, concluded.

2016-05-17 | Houston PD FAILS TO TURN FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE INTO CRIME LAB IN THOUSANDS OF CASES
The I-Team discovered the problem is pervasive. According to HPD records, there were 4,451 crimes with recovered fingerprint evidence between August 2014 and April 2016. In more than half of those, 56 percent, HPD failed to request lab analysis. And it's not just burglary cases, but aggravated robberies, assaults and even murder.

2016-05-13 | Convicted Drug Analyst Worked on 1 in 6 Cases in Mass., ACLU Says
Annie Dookhan, who was released from prison in March, was involved in analyzing samples in 24,000 successful prosecutions, according to documents produced from an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit.

2016-05-13 | NC CRIME LAB CONUNDRUM - WWAY Investigation
“One, try them just based on the visual aspects of their impairment without being able to prove the drug,” Old said. “There certainly are cases where anecdotally we’ve had to dismiss cases because we don’t have the results in a timely enough fashion.” Criminal defense attorney Buddy Allard said sometimes that means a win for them. “There have been plenty of times where myself and other defense lawyers like me have reaped the benefit of the state’s inability to get that blood test down,” Allard said.

2016-05-11 | Murder Investigations Examined as Unsolved Cases Continue to Rise
According to a new study by Michigan State University, the role of the homicide investigator might be shifting in today’s world, and a closer look at the changing needs of murder investigations might help stem the declining clearance rates nationwide. Lead researcher and MSU professor David Carter said there is no clear “silver bullet.”

2016-05-11 | Murder Investigations Examined as Unsolved Cases Continue to Rise
According to a new study by Michigan State University, the role of the homicide investigator might be shifting in today’s world, and a closer look at the changing needs of murder investigations might help stem the declining clearance rates nationwide. Lead researcher and MSU professor David Carter said there is no clear “silver bullet.”