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 ...

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department lab analyst is under investigation after the department found irregularities in a recently conducted “biological analysis.” CMPD said an internal inquiry ...

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 ...

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 ...