Team 5 Investigates is reporting that fired crime lab employee Robert Pino has morphed into a "whistle blower". Is this sour grapes or signs of bigger problems? Seems like a transparent investigation and hearings are called for. Excerpts … [Read more...]
Why YOU should care about the State Police Crime Lab scandal
DNA MATCH IS SUSPECT WITHOUT JUDICIAL OVERSIGHTBy Eric Goldscheider/Guest columnistMetroWest Daily NewsFriday, March 23, 2007The most recent revelations about problems at the Massachusetts State Police crime lab raise deeply disturbing … [Read more...]
DNA Lab Scandal Spotlight Shifts to Selavka
Let's start by listing the pre-DNA lapses in the Lab with regard to this case. The most obvious is that the lab LOST OR DESTROYED a set of four fingerprints from a key piece of evidence. We know from a belatedly released report that those … [Read more...]
Globe’s Saltzman follows State Police DNA lab troubles
This from today's Globe:Crime lab botched 27 DNA resultsNearly twice as many as state found earlierBy Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | February 14, 2007An administrator at the State Police crime laboratory mishandled DNA test … [Read more...]
Speaking Out speaks out on YouTube
Gentle readers (and watchers) of Blue Mass Group: Below is my first foray into movie making. (Thanks to nifty software called Movie Maker.)The point, as you will see, is that the prosecutor at the recent SJC hearing on the highly … [Read more...]
DNA Data Bases & Black Box Voting
The last two paragraphs of Julia Preston's article in today's New York Times, "U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling" (sub. req.), caught my eye.Many groups warned that the measure would compound already severe backlogs in the … [Read more...]
Ben LaGuer Deserves An External Review of the 2002 DNA Test NOW!
A Case for LaGuer ReviewMetroWest Daily NewsBy Eric Goldscheider/Guest columnistFriday, January 19, 2007Recent allegations that Robert Pino, an administrator at the State Police crime lab in Sudbury, misreported DNA results have major … [Read more...]
State Police DNA Woes Escalate
The headline on an excellent editoral in The Enterprise today is "A Broken Link at State Police". Highlights:DNA identification is probably the biggest advance in criminal investigations since the advent of fingerprinting a century ago. DNA … [Read more...]