Felony drug charges were filed in federal court Thursday against Deborah Madden, the disgraced former technician at the San Francisco Police Department’s crime lab.In a one-sentence indictment, federal prosecutors allege that Madden did “knowingly and intentionally acquire and obtain possession of, by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge” cocaine from the lab.
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Candidate for district attorney Sharmin Bock is calling attention to the more than 1,000 unsolved murders in The City as part of her campaign platform to reform the Police Department’s DNA lab.
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The District Attorney’s Office is appealing a judge’s ruling ordering it to release a memorandum by a former consultant that reportedly criticized the Police Department’s DNA testing lab.
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The former criminalist whose drug scandal ended drug testing by the police department and forced the dismissal of hundreds of criminal cases opened up in court Tuesday about her addiction but insisted that it had no impact on her performance in a nearly 30-year-old murder case.
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The former San Francisco Police department criminalist whose alleged theft of drugs from the crime lab scandalized the department will be called soon to testify in a nearly 30-year-old murder case.
Debbie Madden appeared at a pretrial court hearing Wednesday in the case of Dwight Culton, 61, accused of killing 43-year-old Joan Baldwin at a former auto body shop near the Hall of Justice on April 6, 1984.
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Despite investigations, including a newly revealed one, focusing on the DNA-tesing portion of the San Francisco Police Department crime lab, the facility received its renewed accreditation.
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A DNA sample that was accidentally mixed up with another sample at the San Francisco Police Department’s beleaguered crime lab in 2008 has spawned at least two investigations and renewed calls for an independently operated lab.
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Getting San Francisco’s crime lab to speed up its DNA testing has had nearly enough twists and turns to make a double helix — but progress is finally being made, police say.
For months, the San Francisco Police Department has been outsourcing DNA testing work in an attempt to reduce their testing backlog.
But this was intended to be only a temporary solution: the department promised to hire three new DNA technicians, which would allow the crime lab to take back most or all of
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A fresh batch of San Francisco police officers has been promoted to fill command-staff spots left vacant after high-ranking officers failed to rein in a growing scandal at the drug lab.
The fastest rise to the top comes for the personal driver and assistant to former police Chief Heather Fong. Capt. Tom Shawyer, who was a lieutenant in April 2009, will become an assistant chief working as chief of staff for top cop George Gascón.
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San Francisco police Chief George Gascón used angry phrases like “acts of negligence” and “we are going to hold people accountable” in his Friday news conference about the department’s lengthy “inability to see the signs” of a drug-testing scandal at its crime laboratory.
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