WTOP: Conflict of interest? Company hired to review troubled DC crime lab wins new contract with same lab

By Editor On Jul 19, 2021 Last updated Jul 19, 2021

In late May, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced she was bringing in a forensic consulting firm to perform an independent review of the city’s troubled crime lab, which had just seen its accreditation stripped and is the subject of a criminal investigation over its handling of errors in a murder case.

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