NEW YORK — The New York City medical examiner’s office confirmed Friday that it is reviewing hundreds of rape cases for possible errors in DNA analysis.
Officials say so far it appears that the testing in the majority of the cases was valid. But in one instance, the review uncovered evidence that resulted in an indictment last year accusing a man of raping a minor more than a decade ago in Brooklyn.
Comments
so MA is not the only State with mismanagement? This case in NY is about a technician who worked there for 10 years and her work was also not monitored? So much for the work of State employees with their expensive benefits and pensions but let's see what the investigation uncovers. nothing would be a surprise.
Maybe Annie Dookhan's got a twin. How is this possible unless there is absolutely no oversight, no performance reviews?? Where is the employee's manager?? In Massachusetts, Annie Dookhan's manager quit and that's the end of that. I never heard of quitting a job gets you out of any legal responsibility for committing a crime.
Because of Annie Dookhan, we're going to be paying a fortune in financial restitution to the prisoners who were wrongly incarcerated. Every single case that went through the Boston lab while Dookhan was employed is at risk for being overturned because she manipulated weighing scales and she signed other people's initials to her work ... you don't have any idea who really did the work. (I think putting initials on your work is the highest level of jackassery ... if you come back to a case in 20 years, how are you going to know who "AD" is.) Prisoners are going to be let out who should not be. Parents have lost custody because she manipulated evidence. People have been deported back to country of origin which might put their lives at risk ... all because of Dookhan (and those who stood back and watched and did nothing).
If this identical thing can happen in another state, obviously, the parameters used for checking employment qualifications ... background checks, copies of resumes, who you know-and-blow that already works for the government, and sadly, affirmative action ... all these things need to be thrown out and a new way of getting the job done needs to be put in place ... can we say privatization.
It's become blatantly obvious in the Federal government and in the Massachusetts government, that there's way too much fraud, incompetence, favor-dealing, crime-committing for jobs like this to be handled by a government employee.
I was a government employee for almost five years. I worked hard. I went home exhausted every night. Most of the people that worked around me were also hard workers. But, that's the peons. Management, representatives, senators not so much.
It's really embarrassing what we've created as a society.