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CNN's George Soros-gate |
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For every Fred Zain |
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05/29/2005 |
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Here in San Antonio former crime lab chief Fred Zain fudged on a whole lot of evidence. Dozens of cases were thrown out due to his playing loose with evidence. He went on to West Virginia to conduct business in much the same fashion.
"A West Virginia State Police investigation identified as many as 182 cases that might have been affected by Zain's work."
I've read about this happening all over the country in various places. While I'm sure it's uncommon, I don't know if rare is a good characterization either.
You act as though being truly SURE in a conviction is less important than making crime labs look bad. If there's anything we should be careful about, it's evidence that will put people away for years and years.
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There are scores of Henry Lee's who take defense dollars to cast doubt on evidence that is true and credible.
The fact is that most evidence doesn't even get to the testing stage due to limited resources and budgets. Yes, there are "experts" like Zain who are evil and unscrupulous-- but most of them work for the defense.
This fact was never mentioned.
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