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6 Sep 2012, 2:33 am by Michael DelSignore
Defense attorneys in Boston understand that many government crime labs, due to a lack of funding and lowered staffing levels, are working under difficult and high-pressure conditions. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 8:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
25 Aug 2011, 7:33 am by Steve Hall
These could include police behavior, but also factors like lighting, the time that had elapsed since the crime or whether the victim felt stress at the time of the identification. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
From being afraid the FDA "food police" will try to steal your seeds, to trying to privatize Social Security, government is perceived as both overbearing and incompetent (at the same time). [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 10:08 am by Jeff Gamso
  Martin Finucane in the Boston Globe reports:On Wednesday, during Melendez-Diaz's retrial, a chemist from the state Department of Public Health testified that the substance allegedly found in the back seat of a police cruiser with Melendez-Diaz and two other men tested "positive for the presence of naturally occurring cocaine. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 7:16 pm by admin
The following is a summary review of articles from all over the nation concerning environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 4:17 am
But then, the introduction of laboratory analyses is entirely different, since they're "scientific" and we can certainly trust crime labs to produce fully accurate and honest results, right? [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 9:24 am
Melendez-Diaz allegedly stashed cocaine in a Boston police car while he was under arrest. [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]
25 Jun 2009, 4:36 am
The facts are these.Basically, Boston police officers found out that this guy Thomas Wright was basically dealing coke out of a Kmart. [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]
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]
19 Sep 2008, 6:00 pm
Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. [read post]
2 Aug 2008, 12:54 am
, (Daily Dose of IP), 20 August – Bill Patry Copyright Blog speaking on copyright – Melbourne: (Patry Copyright Blog), (LawFont.com), 21 August – Bill Patry Copyright Blog speaking on copyright – Canberra: (Patry Copyright Blog), (LawFont.com), 22 August – Bill Patry Copyright Blog speaking on copyright – Sydney: (Patry Copyright Blog), (LawFont.com), 26 August: WIPO symposium on IP and multilateral agreements – Geneva: (IPKat),… [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]
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]
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]