Anywhere else in the world, Cpl Brown would have been demoted or fired. No questions asked. Why is there no mention of chain of custody? Why is this evidence being allowed into court in the first place? Why were "toxicological samples" not submitted until a month after the crime in question and biological samples not until 2 months after the crime? Where were these samples all that time? Chain of custody? Why would seminal fluid, pubic hairs, fingernail clippings be submitted in a tox kit? Tox kits contain urine, blood, head hair, gastric contents, vitreous humour, & or oral fluid (saliva). No way under God's hot sun does that make sense; hopefully, the author of this article got confused. Additionally, why would any of those biological samples be packaged in plastic? Why would tox samples be submitted to the same person that handles biological samples? Why is there no mention of doing presumptive/screening and confirmatory testing on the biological samples? What were the preliminary findings based on microscopic examination and preliminary testing? Gross negligence and incompetent at its finest! It's unfortunate that I'm not the least bit surprised by any of this. The forensic lab does not want to hire educated, trained, competent people in DNA or in any forensic field. They pluck incompetent police officers who barely graduated high school, lack the necessary education in science and expect them to understand why and how to do their jobs efficiently. No wonder, there are no jobs for Bahamians who have years of training in forensics abroad and work abroad in the forensic field.
incompetenceatitsfinest says...
Anywhere else in the world, Cpl Brown would have been demoted or fired. No questions asked. Why is there no mention of chain of custody? Why is this evidence being allowed into court in the first place? Why were "toxicological samples" not submitted until a month after the crime in question and biological samples not until 2 months after the crime? Where were these samples all that time? Chain of custody? Why would seminal fluid, pubic hairs, fingernail clippings be submitted in a tox kit? Tox kits contain urine, blood, head hair, gastric contents, vitreous humour, & or oral fluid (saliva). No way under God's hot sun does that make sense; hopefully, the author of this article got confused. Additionally, why would any of those biological samples be packaged in plastic? Why would tox samples be submitted to the same person that handles biological samples? Why is there no mention of doing presumptive/screening and confirmatory testing on the biological samples? What were the preliminary findings based on microscopic examination and preliminary testing? Gross negligence and incompetent at its finest! It's unfortunate that I'm not the least bit surprised by any of this. The forensic lab does not want to hire educated, trained, competent people in DNA or in any forensic field. They pluck incompetent police officers who barely graduated high school, lack the necessary education in science and expect them to understand why and how to do their jobs efficiently. No wonder, there are no jobs for Bahamians who have years of training in forensics abroad and work abroad in the forensic field.
On DNA questions in murder case
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