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Bicka Barlow

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    State Appeals Court Upholds Judge's Order Unsealing Secret DNA Lab Memo

    ​A panel of state appeals-court judges has upheld a San Francisco Superior Court judge's order last month that District Attorney George Gascón release a secret memo describing problems with DNA analysis at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab.The decision appeared to remove the last barr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Judge Orders District Attorney George Gascón to Release Secret Crime Lab Memo

    Rockne Harmon​A judge ordered prosecutors to release an internal memo criticizing DNA testing procedures at the San Francisco police crime lab today, an unexpected turn of events that could have serious political and legal ramifications for the SFPD and the office of District Attorney George Gascà ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2010

    SFPD crime lab's DNA evidence could be tainted by concealed mistakes

    Rockne Harmon​A judge ordered prosecutors to release an internal memo criticizing DNA testing procedures at the San Francisco police crime lab today, an unexpected turn of events that could have serious political and legal ramifications for the SFPD and the office of District Attorney George Gascà ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    A Timeline of Problems at the SFPD DNA Lab

    ​Through reporting over the past month, SF Weekly has uncovered multiple instances of scientifically and ethically questionable conduct by DNA analysts at the San Francisco Police Department Crime Laboratory. Our findings focus on two lapses in particular: the destruction of records of a potential ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Exclusive: SFPD Concealed DNA Sample Switch at Crime Lab

    ​Records of bungle in 2008 case were destroyed, investigation findsA forensics analyst's error that resulted in a mix-up of DNA samples, reportedly in a homicide case, has been concealed by officials at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab for close to two years, SF Weekly has learned. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Testimony: Crime Lab Didn't Investigate How DNA Samples Were Tainted

    Crime lab supervisor Matt Gabriel giving the media a tour​San Francisco's bedraggled crime lab took another hit today with the news that two samples in recent years ended up contaminated with lab technicians' DNA. And it appears the lab has no idea what it should do to keep this from happening aga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Public Defender Wants Investigation Of 'Secret Society of Criminalists' at Crime Lab

    Seriously, what's going on at that crime lab? ​San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi is calling for an outside investigation of the police's crime lab after news came out late Tuesday that a former civilian lab technician, Deborah Madden, had allegedly stolen cocaine evidence samples from at l ... More >>

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