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SBI's methods stun former FBI official
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This newspaper article documents growing public concern regarding the integrity and oversight of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory during the 2010 forensic reporting controversy. The article reports calls from law enforcement leadership for greater accountability and provides contemporaneous evidence that confidence in SBI laboratory practices had eroded beyond the defense community, supporting the allegations discussed throughout Statement of Facts A.
("State police group urges criminal probe of SBI," News and Observer, August 19, 2010)
Related SMAR Citation
Source Name
Legal tangle may slow SBI reforms
Author(s)
Mandy Locke & Joseph Neff
Publication(s)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Publication Date
August 19, 2010
Verification Source
"SBI's methods stun former FBI official," The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Source Location
News & Observer special report on SBI laboratory practices
Highlighted Pages
1, 5
Referenced in the Supplemental Motion
Page 11, Paragraph: 12
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May's allegation that concerns regarding the reliability and integrity of SBI laboratory operations
had become so widespread that they extended beyond defense attorneys, innocence advocates,
prosecutors, and independent reviewers to include law-enforcement organizations themselves.
The News & Observer article is cited to document the statement of John Midgette, Executive
Director of the North Carolina Police Benevolent Association, that "no further laboratory analysis
can be trusted under the current control of SBI leadership." May relies upon this statement to
support his claim that confidence in the SBI Crime Laboratory had deteriorated to the point that
even representatives of the law-enforcement community publicly questioned the trustworthiness of
SBI forensic testing and called for greater scrutiny of SBI leadership and laboratory practices.
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