[Still Thinking]

The ruling will provide for an added layer of challenge by defense lawyers to such criminal evidence as illegal drugs, fingerprints, blood spatter patterns and blood chemistry, guns and bullets, and other forms of physical evidence subjected to lab analyses, at least when the resulting reports are prepared for use as evidence in criminal trials.

True, but it also allows prosecutors to question defense lab experts as well. Seems like the right decision.

[muawiyah]

The major problem for the accused under this decision is that "if he's guilty" this simply increases the time to discuss the narcotics he was peddling and reduces, proportionately, the chance to talk about what a good boy he was otherwise.

The result will be that more guilty perps will end up in jail longer, and a couple of guys who might be lucky ('cause the lab messed up something) will get to go back on the street and try it again real soon.

I seriously doubt it will reduce the number of innocent people sent to jail.