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In The News

2015-01-11 | Lawmaker says reducing delays at crime lab will be priority
Between January 2010 and the first half of 2014, 35 departing scientists, or 28 percent of the lab’s case working scientists, gave “better employment” as an explanation for leaving, according to the annual report by the State Crime Lab, dated Oct. 1. “Factoring in selection, hiring, training, salary and other Lab costs, it is estimated that the state’s loss from the departure of these 35 scientists to other employment reaches a stunning $4,011,875.”

2015-01-09 | In two cases — including Erica Jenkins trial — defense lawyers question lab’s fingerprint slip
Douglas County Public Defender Tom Riley had succeeded in getting a delay Wednesday in the murder trial of Mitchell Wynne because, a judge ruled, prosecutors took too long to notify Riley of the 2012 fingerprint mistake.

2015-01-08 | Thousands of Drug Convictions at Stake in Massachusetts Case
The ACLU and the committee estimates over 40,000 convictions are linked with the drug lab scandal, but prosecutors suggested the number is closer to 20,000. "We're two and a half years out from this (scandal) and we're still no closer to providing relief," said Benjamin Keehn, the committee's lawyer. "It could be 20,000, 30,000 or 40,000 people. We don't know."

2015-01-08 | Backlog of evidence is slowing justice process
Although high priority evidence can now jump to the front of the line and get processed quickly, lower priority cases keep getting pushed back, causing a back log. "Property crimes and DNA testing can be about up to 3 years and sometimes we're pushing the envelope as to the statute of limitations in getting DNA evidence back on a property case," says Millsap. The most troubling delay is regarding sexual assault cases. "To get the evidence back that we need in a sexual assault case often takes anywhere from 9 months to a little over a year," says Millsap. He says the delay is having an effect on the justice process.

2015-01-08 | Crime labs’ slips spur new calls for joint Omaha-Douglas County lab
Omaha police’s misidentification of a fingerprint two years ago caused all kinds of ripples Wednesday. It delayed the first-degree murder trial of Mitchell Wynne after a judge determined that prosecutors should have been quicker to report the misidentification to Wynne’s defense team.

2015-01-07 | Vermont Crime Lab Struggles to Stay Legit
Vermont's forensic laboratory missed a December deadline to qualify for a key accreditation, potentially throwing into doubt the admissibility of evidence in hundreds of criminal cases across the state.

2015-01-05 | Whalen expert critical of state DNA testing
In an opinion filed recently in McLean County Court Court, Reich said the state police crime lab lacks "the procedures, background or frankly the willingness, to take real-world considerations into account" in post-conviction analysis work. "The procedures, methods, approaches, analysis and guidelines used by ISP were developed well over 15 years ago and were designed to address simple cases with large amounts of easily accessible biological evidence," Reich argued.

2015-01-03 | Crime lab backlog, scheduling issues stall local murder cases
A trial and a plea deal last month whittled High Point prosecutors’ list of recent pending murder cases to five, with seven defendants — five men and two women — still awaiting trial in 2012-14 killings.

2014-12-24 | New Orleans Police: Many Rape Kits Just in Storage
The untested rape kits were disclosed during a New Orleans City Council hearing Thursday that examined failings in the department's handling of rapes and child abuse. They can be important elements in an investigation, especially when a victim is attacked by a stranger and DNA is essential. "We are committed to clearing the backlog of sexual assault kits that require testing once and for all and we are actively putting systems of accountability in place to ensure it never happens again," Harrison said in a statement.

2014-12-24 | DNA review finds killer of two women in 1980s
With the help of advanced DNA testing, law enforcement officials have solved the 1983 murder of a young woman in Massachusetts and the 1987 murder of a woman in New Hampshire, and determined that the killer was the same man in both cases, they announced Tuesday.