Posted on 09/23/2012 6:17:28 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
“A legislative panel is looking into possible reforms. Prosecutors say the obvious answer is better oversight.”
Ya think?
It is incredibly easy to "frame" somebody by doctoring a test result.
You mean no one noticed all that time.
End this stupid war on drugs now. It’s done far more harm than good. Everything Government touches outside of it’s specifically enumerated powers it f**** up. Everything.
These kinds of scandals have happened over and over. That’s why you never trust the ‘technical evidence’ over that of eyewitnesses to the alleged crime.
It is well known how important the handling of evidence is, for precisely the reason that if a person handling the evidence becomes suspect, then all evidence that person has handled becomes suspect. They had procedures, as every other city does, to ensure proper handling of evidence and test results. Yet she still was able to carry on, even after she started to raise red flags? This was a management failure.
We had the same problem in San Francisco. A lot of convicted people had their cases dropped. The lab technician in question was NOT Amish.
The media here in MA has been pumping this story. Pumping it and pumping it. Like there’s nothing else to talk about. Crime lab scandal, day after day.
When I see stuff like this, I have to ask, “What is the media’s agenda?”
I say they want drug legalization. This little scandal is just a means to that end.
In MA, I would have gotten a felony. The perp who did this needs HARD TIME BEHIND BARS.
You have the answer.
ya they going to lett all their drug dealers out a jail for free.
When I inquired, I was told that I had a controlled substance in my blood. It's a freaking beta blocker! I had showed the lab my prescription before hand.
Same lab had passed me six times before. Idiots.
Police running a crime lab on the cheap (She was handling three times the normal caseload) and most likely putting pressure on to convict (and hurry it up) . What could go wrong? CSI it ain’t.
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The DA’s want convictions , they want the “right” lab result , they’re all on “the same team” ... management was involved by simply ignoring the problems ... and the overworked lab tech is low man on the totem pole ...
This is why we should have the biblical “two or three witnesses” required for a conviction.
Just a drug lab test shouldn’t cut it.
The drug test; a witness; the testimony of someone who says he boasted of being a drug dealer. That’s three witnesses in my book, and if on a jury, I’d vote to convict.
Not on just a drug test.
The problem here is not the “war on drugs.” The problem is the wrongly prosecuted war on drugs. Do it right. Two or three witnesses.
There could be several reasons why you were passed previously, including test sensitivity to the substance, or a metabolic situation in your body that produced more concentrated levels on the test that day.
My guess is that this will all boil down to hack-hiring and affirmative action hiring.
So if you weigh the same as a duck?
When will the persecutions end?
I have passed over 50 drug tests since 2001. Always on this medication. This was not a metabolic reaction. this was a screw up by a lab tech who didn't know the difference between a beta blocker and a narcotic.
I had to fight it and get another independent lab to refute the results. That was six months out of my life.
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