While the recent scandal surrounding the SBI Crime Lab has not had any trouble making headlines, the very text of the independent audit inadvertently suggests that this might only be the beginning.
In the concluding portion of the recently issued independent review, it states:
“This report is not an indictment of the SBI Laboratory. This was a review of a subset of tests conducted by one Lab Section within a defined period of time. It was not a comprehensive review of all Sections and all tests conducted by the lab.” [Emphasis added]
While those statements may have been included as an effort to bolster the public’s trust of the embattled lab, it instead begs the question: if the review had in fact been comprehensive, what would have been exposed?
As is often the case: the deeper you dig, the more you find.
h/t: Daren Bakst
