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By Steve Hall

Today's News & Observer of Raleigh carries the editorial, "DAs on board."Even though a News & Observer series and a shocking audit of cases handled by the State Bureau of Investigation's crime lab have demonstrated that SBI analysts have long seen themselves as members of the prosecution "team" in court, those prosecutors recognize that tainted evidence undermines the entire system of justice. Therefore, the N.C. Conference of District Attorneys now has called for an independent audit of all parts of the SBI's forensic lab, which finds its credibility in tatters.There should be no question of, or resistance to, such an audit. Already, more than 200 cases have been identified where SBI blood analysts didn't tell the whole story...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).