Police Crime Labs Struggle with Funding, Training and Bias Issues / GovTech, 9 July 2008
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/375562?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new%20JPS_2008_7_9
Jim McKay
“A 2004 investigation by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer found 23 DNA testing errors in serious criminal cases handled in a Washington state lab. In North Carolina, the Winston-Salem Journal recently ran a series of articles about many DNA testing errors by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. In Virginia, it took an outside investigation to clear Earl Washington Jr., who was falsely convicted of capital murder and nearly executed. An independent lab reused the same samples that led to his conviction but found contradicting results.”