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CBI Lab Scandal Leads to Case Dismissal | Colorado Springs News
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A Weld County judge just tossed out a child sexual assault case, citing a catastrophic scandal at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s forensic lab — where a DNA analyst secretly manipulated and deleted evidence for years. The judge called it government misconduct, comparing the lab’s failures to a cancer ignored for too long. Despite supervisors knowing about problems as early as 2014, action was delayed until it was too late. The defendant, charged in 2020 for an alleged 2018 crime, now stands to benefit from this ruling — though the DA is appealing to the Colorado Supreme Court. With nearly 11,000 cases touched by this analyst’s misconduct, the decision could reshape how forensic credibility is handled across the state.
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