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US crime lab found distorting evidence to put hundreds of innocent people in jailWFAEAug. 20, 2010 |
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 A review of the state Bureau of Investigation has found 230 examples of flawed work in the agency's crime lab. WFAE's Greg Collard reports. [...] While positive tests for blood were included in analyst's final reports, "negative confirmatory tests for the presence of blood were not reported," says Chris Swecker, a Charlotte attorney and former FBI agent who co-authored the report. In some cases, crime lab analysts wrote they didn't perform additional tests when in fact they had. And in those cases, the results would have favored defendants. [...] Overall, 269 people were charged in the 230 cases in which problems were found (no one was charged in 40 of those cases). Eighty are still in prison, including four on death row. Three have been executed. Read More 
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