More errors surface at military crime lab as Senate seeks inquiry

By artappraiser on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 1:12am |

By Marisa Taylor and Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers, May 15, 2011

WASHINGTON — The military's premier crime lab has botched more of its evidence testing than has been previously known, raising broader questions about the quality of the forensic work relied on to convict soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

Now, the Supreme Court could weigh in, while two senators want the Pentagon to open a full-blown investigation. If they start looking, Pentagon officials will find that the crime lab's problems extend beyond one discredited analyst.

The scrutiny comes after McClatchy published a series of stories detailing how a former long-time forensics analyst at the Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory made false statements and mishandled dozens of tests. A follow-up McClatchy investigation reveals that a second lab analyst....

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