Dakota County Attorney Responds to Allegations of Impropriety Regarding St. Paul Crime Lab Cases
The office of Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom issued the following statement late last week.
Editor's note: Patch published an aggregated story on July 19 that suggested the St. Paul Crime Lab may not be compliant with best practices and that this noncompliance could have endangered the reliability of drug tests in criminal cases. Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom issued the following statement. ---- In response to the claims being made that the Dakota County Attorney’s Office had prior knowledge of the extent of the problems with the St. Paul Police Department Crime Laboratory, the following is the explanation of the events leading up to the hearings in eight consolidated drug cases in Dakota County conducted during the week of July 16, 2012: In February and March of 2012 the Dakota County Attorney’s Office received extensive…
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