The Forensic Fumble, A Glimpse into DNA's Dark Side-2024 Year in Review
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's a busy holiday week, and during this week, we are bringing you a look back at some of the most compelling stories and conversations we've covered for you in 2024. |
| 0:11.9 | It's 24 in review. |
| 0:13.4 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tommy Bruske, featuring special guest and forensic scientist, Dan Crane. |
| 0:20.9 | Is this going to cause a big uptick in more experts being called in on DNA? |
| 0:29.0 | Do you feel, at least in Colorado, beyond just the lab results? |
| 0:33.7 | Because I'm going to guess, I mean, this is just my layman assumption, is that a lot of defense attorneys were looking at the lab results and going, we already have an expert that put this together. The lab. The lab is the expert. Why do I need another expert to review the work of the lab? And in theory, you really shouldn't. But when we see cases like this pop up, it's like, oh, there should be a second set of eyes on this work. |
| 0:58.7 | Well, let's let me start just by saying it's very unusual for an attorney to pursue a degree in law |
| 1:05.7 | when they also have a fondness for maths and biology. |
| 1:10.7 | Sure. |
| 1:11.5 | And so I think it's the natural inclination of most attorneys to just say, okay, fine, I don't |
| 1:17.3 | want to wrestle with this. |
| 1:18.4 | Let's just try to minimize the damage. |
| 1:20.6 | Maybe if I don't talk about it in court to the jury, won't pay any attention to it. |
| 1:25.1 | And then, you know, we can just focus on other things, right? |
| 1:27.9 | And so, you know, that's, maybe there will be a little bit less of that. But I'll, I'll, |
| 1:33.8 | I'll add that it is scandals like this and, and even more so miscarriages of justice that |
| 1:43.3 | seem to end up resulting in the biggest, most wide-sweeping, |
| 1:51.0 | systematic changes to the way that forensic science has done, that end up making the system better. |
| 1:58.0 | And for my personal experience, I saw that play out with the creation of the Virginia |
| 2:04.0 | Scientific Advisory Committee. That was a group of 12 experts that are appointed by the governor |
| 2:12.6 | of the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide guidance and oversight to the Virginia Department of Forensic |
| 2:20.5 | Science. That committee was established by statute, by law in Virginia explicitly and entirely |
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