Radley Balko has been all over the problems with Mississippi’s forensic sciences, but now David Tarrell reports in from Nebraska:
…CSI commander David Kofoed was called in for one more search. He “found” a speck of blood matching one the murder victim’s DNA on the vehicle’s steering column.
Case closed, right? How is the defense lawyer going to demonstrate that the DNA isn’t the smoking gun, in other words?
The only problem for Commander Kofoed was that shortly thereafter, two Wisconsin teens were arrested for the murder and a large amount of DNA evidence was once again found in their vehicle.
The FBI is investigating. Tarrell has more of the story.
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