Why so many problems at the Fort Worth crime lab? | Opinion
A DNA sample undergoes analysis.Whether someone is found guilty or acquitted in criminal court often hinges on the testimony of forensic scientists and trust in the laboratories where they work.
This latest review by the Texas Forensic Science Commission is focused on concerns about the proficiency testing of employees, but it appears to be widening. Commission general counsel Lynn Garcia called the issue “pretty serious” at a January meeting and said investigators had not yet determined “to what extent” documents were deleted. She also said the commission was concerned about possible errors in measurement of seized drugs and blood-alcohol analysis recently discovered by the American National Standards Institute’s accreditation board.
The commission also found that the lab’s quality assurance division “needs to be strengthened considerably,” and that management should improve its policy regarding disclosure to the district attorney’s office of potentially exculpatory evidence.
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