Crime lab

Uh, 2643, please.

2643? Crime Lab, Allen.

It's Friday, Jay.

Yeah, Joe.

They cry.

11.45 p.m.

The crime lab men arrived and went to work.

They found three shotgun pellets embedded in the wall to the right and above the head of the victim's bed.

Ben and I left a message for Chief of Detectives Thad Brown.

Then we went over to the crime lab, picked up Lieutenant Lee Jones, and drove out the Arroyo Seco Freeway to Collis Avenue.

It was an average neighborhood.

Number 4656 was a one-story green stucco residence situated on the corner of Collis Avenue and Harrison Drive.

4:30 PM, Thursday, December 22nd.

The neighborhood search for nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone continued.

Lee Jones went back to the crime lab to start the precipitant test and the blood grouping.

Levinson and his partner, Dougherty, from Highland Juvenile stood by.

Had them taped inside the collar of his shirt.

Crime Lab analyzed it.

Same stuff we've been chasing.

European, high-grade.

Knowing that he was bound to become ill, he was ordered into isolation and the jailer instructed to notify the doctor in attendance if Jennings needed attention.

5:15 PM.

We went over to the crime lab and checked with Jay Allen, who'd analyzed the two capsules found taped to the inside of Jennings' shirt collar.

He told us it was the same grade of high-test heroin which had been found in the possession of other addicts during the past two months.

In pre-Christmas Los Angeles, Friday and Romero are assigned to homicide detail when nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone disappears while his mother is shopping.

Bloodstains and an expended .22 caliber cartridge near the Johnstone home deepen the inquiry as the detectives work with juvenile officers, the crime lab, and a widening search.

And now, we return to the original broadcast.

The story you're about to hear is true.

They look new.

Ben and I left a message for Chief of Detectives Thad Brown.

Then we went over to the crime lab, picked up Lieutenant Lee Jones, and drove out the Arroyo Secoe Freeway to Collis Avenue.

It was an average neighborhood.

State lab technicians, Brown seventeen Cal fourth eight seventy-three, nineteen ninety-eight, reversing death penalty convictions for prosecution's failure to disclose forensic crime lab worksheets showing possible drugs which could have affected defendant's mental state, even though prosecutors had no actual knowledge of the worksheet.

Prosecutors will be deemed to have knowledge of and access to anything in the possession, custody, or control of any federal agency participating in the same investigation of the defendant.

Probation Department, United States v. Alvarez, two thousand and four, and Crime Labs and Brown, seventeen Cal eight seventy-three, denied five twenty-five U.S. nineteen ninety-eight, reversing death penalty conviction for prosecution's failure to disclose forensic crime lab worksheet showing possible drugs which could have affected defendant's mental state, even though prosecutor had no actual knowledge of that worksheet.

E. Idaho Criminal Rule 16A requires the timely disclosure of exculpatory evidence.

In addition to a prosecutor's Brady obligations, Idaho Criminal Rule 16A requires the prosecution to disclose, as soon as practicable, any material or information which tends to negate the guilt of the accused as to the offense charged or reduce the punishment thereof.

In 2019, more than a quarter century after Angie's tragic passing, the long-awaited breakthrough finally came.

On February 27, 2019, a senior forensic scientist at the St. Charles County Crime Lab made a stunning discovery.

There was previously undetected DNA on the torn remnants of Angie's undergarments.

Advanced testing had lifted a genetic profile that investigators in the 1990s could never have obtained with the forensic science of the time.

wrote that book.

Pivoting then to another of your works, Autopsy of a Crime Lab.

Yeah, that's the focus on

forensics,

And your colleague, Chris Fabrikant, came on this program to talk about that in the particularly with respect to blood splatter and bite mark analysis, what would reforms to the forensic system look like if you were following the data with a captive audience of lawmakers who were willing to accept all of your recommendations?

Yeah.

I mean, one of the most important things that the scientific community has been talking about for years is that crime labs should be scientific labs.

I work at a university, at our university hospital, you wouldn't have like analysts just sort of like eyeballing someone's skin saying, yeah, I don't know, it kind of looks like cancer.