Technology & Science
Oct. 30, 2009
Tight-Lipped Labs Need to Start Talking
Los Angeles County Public Defender Jennifer Friedman emphasizes the need to change how courts, lawyers and labs handle forensic evidence.
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By Jennifer FriedmanThe National Academy of Science Report, Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: a Path Forward (NAS Report 2009) concluded that the courts are ill-equipped to ensure that only forensic results, which are valid, are admitted into evidence and moreover, are incapable of "curing the documented ills of the forensic science disciplines." Conversely, the NAS Report 2009 notes that DNA has been subject to rigo...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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