Greg Taylor, the man who spent 17 years in a North Carolina prison for a crime he didn’t commit, will join Rick and me at 10 a.m. today on NewsRadio 680 WPTF. He’ll be joined by Chris Mumma of the N.C. Center on Actual Innocence, for a discussion of the SBI crime lab scandal and Taylor’s life in the wake of his pardon and release from prison. You can hear the interview at 680 AM or online at www.wptf.com.
The News & Observer reports today on the appalling SBI lab scandal.
For nearly two decades, the State Bureau of Investigation’s habit of not reporting results of critical blood tests was unwritten and unofficial. Agent Duane Deaver, operating under unwritten orders, withheld test results that would have helped defendants such as Greg Taylor, who spent 17 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
Then, in 1997, the SBI put the practice in writing, and it didn’t change.
JLF’s Daren Bakst weighs in on the lab scandal here.
