Charges dismissed after state lab mix-up
FGI-FSN — A forensic scientist’s worst nightmare — getting samples (or sample results) mixed up. Don’t say it can’t happen, just hope it only happens as rarely as it is discovered/reported. It very...
View ArticleColorado Springs Metro Crime Lab Blood Alcohol Results WRONG.
FGI-FSN — Numerous news sources in Colorado are reporting about a series of erroneously high blood alcohol results in DUI cases that were reported by the crime lab. The Colorado Gazette published the...
View ArticleDUI Blood Alcohol Results Tossed by Court as Unreliable
FGI-FSN — Remember that 2009 NAS Report? One of the things it mentioned forensic labs were failing to do, was to report uncertainty of measurement. Other fields in science do it routinely —...
View ArticleScottsdale Crime Lab DUI Results Challenged
FGI-FSN — And yet they still testify their results are accurate to within +/- 5% 99.9999% of the time. Hundreds of drunken-driving cases from the past four years could be called into question if a...
View ArticleAuto-Brewery Syndrome
FGI-FSN — Did your blood alcohol reading come back much higher than you expected? Did the police calculate you had to have consumed over a dozen beers when you know you only had two? You might suffer...
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