Crime lab chemist falisifies tests resulting false convictions.

[OutHouse]

getting a piss test while in the military always scared me. if it comes back positive you are done and there is no appeal or retest. this bitch deserves a lot more than 3.5 years.

 

[Darwin333]

3-5 years? That many? You'd think that the corrupt people she was helping would do more for her, especially with as many as 40,000 assists. She must have done something to piss off the wrong person.


And you'd think that this sort of "working relationship" might be an extremely-illegal conflict of interest, along the lines of insider trading. How often does this sort of thing happen already?


I think in their rationalized thinking, they do only send guilty people to jail.
"I wouldn't be prosecuting this person if they weren't guilty, right?"

True but at the same time the DA is thinking that "if I send this innocent man to jail then my resume is better and I have a better chance at getting reelected". I guess your point is valid though, we the people put way to much blind faith in a lot of our elected positions and that goes double for elected positions in the judicial system.

Hell we had a case locally that a DA was found to have very purposely and knowingly withheld evidence that would have proven a man innocent. Due to fact that the DA withheld evidence he was convicted to life in jail and served over a decade before he was eventually released. It was proven in a court of law that the DA illegally withheld evidence for the sole purpose of getting a conviction and he was solely responsible for this man spending over a decade in a high security prison.

Would you like to know what happened to that DA? As far as I know he has suffered ZERO ramifications from it and I know for a fact that he is still practicing as a partner in a very successful law firm. IMHO his crime was FAR worse than the crime he argued the innocent man committed (murder), yet he is free and clear. He was not and will not be brought up on criminal charges and from what I understand he can't even be personally sued.

The bastards don't even have consequences to their actions. The man in the story above missed watching his children growing up, lived in a max security prison undergoing who knows what kind of hell and will never be able to even attempt to regain what he lost. The asshole that did it to him is living out an ultra-cushy life. I am impressed by the now freed mans self control, I can't say that given the circumstances that I wouldn't demand justice regardless of how it came.

 

[Darwin333]

As a former lab chemist I can tell you first hand it is very, very easy to falsify lab results even with the so-called rigid quality systems in place. I can practically change numbers on a piece of lab report without anyone ever questioning the validity.

So don't place too much trust in these things. You have been warned.

Yeah, so how does one convince a jury of what you just said?

And is it really that damn easy? If a DA is in coherts with an unethical lab tech he can simply request his "desired outcome" and get it with no one ever being the wiser???

Does the defendant even have the opportunity to get results from an independent lab (assuming they have a crapton of money to pay for it)?

 

[werepossum]

True but at the same time the DA is thinking that "if I send this innocent man to jail then my resume is better and I have a better chance at getting reelected". I guess your point is valid though, we the people put way to much blind faith in a lot of our elected positions and that goes double for elected positions in the judicial system.

Hell we had a case locally that a DA was found to have very purposely and knowingly withheld evidence that would have proven a man innocent. Due to fact that the DA withheld evidence he was convicted to life in jail and served over a decade before he was eventually released. It was proven in a court of law that the DA illegally withheld evidence for the sole purpose of getting a conviction and he was solely responsible for this man spending over a decade in a high security prison.

Would you like to know what happened to that DA? As far as I know he has suffered ZERO ramifications from it and I know for a fact that he is still practicing as a partner in a very successful law firm. IMHO his crime was FAR worse than the crime he argued the innocent man committed (murder), yet he is free and clear. He was not and will not be brought up on criminal charges and from what I understand he can't even be personally sued.

The bastards don't even have consequences to their actions. The man in the story above missed watching his children growing up, lived in a max security prison undergoing who knows what kind of hell and will never be able to even attempt to regain what he lost. The asshole that did it to him is living out an ultra-cushy life. I am impressed by the now freed mans self control, I can't say that given the circumstances that I wouldn't demand justice regardless of how it came.

Intentionally jailing an innocent person should be prosecuted as kidnapping, period.

 

[thraashman]

Intentionally jailing an innocent person should be prosecuted as kidnapping, period.

Hmmm, that's not a bad idea actually.

 

[Jeff7]

How do I know that you don't know any DA's?

By the time a case gets to court, no one cares about guilt or innocence. All anyone cares about is winning or losing.

If a case isn't a slam dunk, many DA's will drop it because they don't want to take a chance on hurting their 'won/loss' record.

Besides the reality is that the vast majority of cases never get to court. Form Criminal Cases, USCourts.gov
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So I guess they don't even go to the bother of trying to rationalize it for themselves.