WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for prosecutors to use expert testimony about DNA laboratory reports at trial without allowing defendants to confront and question the ...

A Houston forensic lab analyst failed a test meant to measure her attention to detail, leading to her firing and a mass notification about potentially tainted DNA tests in hundreds of Harris County ...

A U.S. Geological Survey analyst at a premier science lab told investigators that tight deadline pressures and short staffing drove the faking of several thousand test results, records obtained by E&E ...

Massachusetts, which has already seen thousands of convictions overturned due to a crime-lab analyst faking the results of drug tests, looks to be in the midst of another forensics nightmare. The head ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A Winston-Salem man convicted of breaking into a woman’s apartment and raping her several times wants additional DNA testing partially because the DNA analyst who testified at ...

Kelli McDonald, a former Broward Sheriff’s Office crime-lab analyst, was involved in testing at least 5,800 drug cases during her nine-year career with the agency. But after discrepancies were found ...

The only DNA analyst fired in the Houston Police Department crime lab scandal got her job back Tuesday. Christy Kim, whose discredited analysis helped send a teenager to prison for a rape he may not ...

The DNA analyst whose faulty laboratory work helped send a teenager to prison for rape has been fired, nine months after the defendant was released because new tests excluded him as a suspect in the ...