D.C. has been unable to fully utilize its crime lab since 2021, when, after months of scrutiny and evidence errors, the city’s Department of Forensic Sciences lost its accreditation to perform ...
Shell casings on display for analysis at the D.C. forensics lab’s Firearms Examination Unit are seen in a September 2019 photo. (WTOP/Megan Cloherty) Defending itself against allegations of ...
Brandon Garrett is director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke University. His most recent book is “Autopsy of a Crime Lab: Exposing the Flaws in Forensics.” Julia Leighton is the ...