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14 Apr 2007, 11:52 am
From the Boston Globe:The embattled administrator of the DNA database at the State Police crime laboratory was fired yesterday, three months after the agency suspended him for allegedly mishandling test results in about two-dozen unsolved sexual assault cases, according to the lawyer for his union. [read post]
18 Jul 2007, 11:37 am
A new probe shows that the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory failed to analyze evidence samples from more than 16,000 crimes that occurred in the state. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 10:11 am
Perhaps it’s right there in the name: the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 10:11 am
Perhaps it’s right there in the name: the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 10:11 am
Perhaps it’s right there in the name: the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 5:40 am
"Massachusetts law enforcement officials are reviewing unsolved homicides to determine whether unanalyzed DNA evidence might crack cases after a harshly critical study yesterday found that the state police crime laboratory has a backlog of 16,000 untested crime scene samples, the Boston Globe reports. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 9:48 pm
Additionally unsettling, is the fact that according to sources, the Hinton lab was not accredited, unlike the Boston police crime lab, and other labs countrywide. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 6:52 am
"The top Massachusetts forensics official resigned yesterday after a series of blunders in the state police crime laboratory and the medical examiner's office, says the Boston Globe. [read post]
2 Oct 2012, 8:02 am
When it came to the work that a chemist at a state laboratory in Boston was doing, supervisors should have been looking at far more than the eye-popping quantity routinely churned out. [read post]
16 Oct 2013, 12:35 pm
Back in 2010, the Houston Police Department fingerprint comparison unit was under investigation for “shoddy” work and a 600+ case backlog.) 2. [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 6:15 am
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 17, 2007
"The Massachusetts State Police crime laboratory may expand the use of its DNA database to search for close relatives of suspects whose DNA is recovered from crime scenes, reports the Boston Globe. [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 6:38 am
Source: Crime and Justice News, February 14, 2007.
"An administrator at the Massachusetts State Police crime laboratory mishandled DNA test results in 27 sexual assault cases, nearly twice as many as state officials' most recent count, according to a nearly completed internal review. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 6:35 am
Source: Crime and Justice News, February 6, 2007.
"As a handful of police departments from Boston to Minneapolis have changed lineup procedures to help reduce tragic identification errors, resistance to top- down reform from police chiefs and prosecutors elsewhere is pushing the debate into the legislative chamber, says the Christian Science Monitor. [read post]
28 Sep 2012, 10:20 am
Boston Criminal Lawyer Lefteris K. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 5:02 pm
Boston police arrested Melendez-Diaz in 2001 and seized bags filled with powdery substances, later determined to be cocaine by chemists at the state Department of Public Health's drug analysis laboratory. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 8:46 am
Indeed, many of the modem tools of detecting -- "[s]ophisticated criminal investigation techniques-well-organized crime records systems, fingerprints, crime labs -- did not appear until the twentieth century. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 9:39 am
The decision came in the wake of a wave of scandals at crime laboratories that included hundreds of tainted cases in Michigan, Texas and West Virginia. [read post]
28 May 2009, 10:00 pm
In 2008, a vendor of laboratory equipment that became suspicious about an order the teenager placed contacted South Hadley police. [read post]
1 Apr 2009, 6:38 am
The State Police Crime Laboratory in Danvers tested the note and say they lifted the Defendant's fingerprint off the handwritten threats. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 1:38 pm
Both claims are wrong, the EFF and ACLU explain in a brief filed today in federal court in Boston. [read post]
