The Examiner reports on a piece of fancy schmancy equipment the San Francisco Police Department could have used to eliminate the DNA testing backlog.

• SFPD let DNA-testing device sit idle (Examiner) 07/23/10
• Lab tech probe in state hands (Examiner) 07/21/10
• SF Crime Lab's Future Uncertain (Bay Citizen) 07/20/10
• City Insider: Survey casts doubt on taxes' passage (Chronicle) 07/20/10
• Attorney: D.A. Harris tried to undercut ruling (Chronicle) 07/08/10
• Drug-case prosecution steered back on track (Examiner) 06/30/10
• Crime lab: D.A. questions judge's impartiality (Chronicle) 06/26/10
• Crime lab tech may finally be charged (Examiner) 06/25/10
• DNA lab chief quits as SFPD considers outsourcing (Chronicle) 06/23/10
• City Insider: Phase out crime lab, report urges (Chronicle) 06/16/10
• Crime-testing transfer would save millions (Examiner) 06/16/10
• D.A. tells defenders of expert witness problems (Chronicle) 06/15/10
• Harris' top aide retiring - sat on scandal tip (Chronicle) 06/12/10
• DA's chief prosecutor retires amid scandal (Examiner) 06/12/10
• Outsourcing drug testing would save city $91,000 (Examiner) 06/11/10
• Inmate decline at S.F. Jail could be tied to crime-lab scandal (Examiner) 06/11/10
• Funds directed toward troubled crime lab (Examiner) 06/02/10
• Madden's role concerns jurors (Chronicle) 05/23/10
• SFPD drug lab scandal triggers claim (Examiner) 05/12/10
• SFPD coping with fewer cops on patrol (Examiner) 05/10/10
• Editorials: Are S.F. police procedure problems now fixed? (Chronicle) 05/07/10
• SFPD drops drug testing from crime lab (Examiner) 05/06/10
• Crime lab fiasco led to drug dealers being freed (SF Weekly) 05/05/10
• Mirkarimi Wants Administrator to Run Crime Lab (KCBS) 04/28/10
• SFPD withheld doubts on crime lab from auditors (Chronicle) 04/27/10
• Prosecutors told to leave out some info in SF crime lab documents (Examiner) 04/27/10
• City Insider: Proposal would shift crime lab from SFPD hands (Chronicle) 04/27/10
• Opinion: Reform needed to restore integrity of S.F. crime lab (Chronicle) 04/26/10
• Opinion: Forget refiling the San Francisco drug cases (Chronicle) 04/26/10
• SFPD’s crime-lab problems not unique (Examiner) 04/26/10
• Harris turns drug lab scandal over to state (Chronicle) 04/24/10
• State lab testing S.F. drugs faces theft probe (Chronicle) 04/24/10
• Madden charges will go to state prosecutors (Examiner) 04/24/10
• Crime lab alternatives being probed by police (Examiner) 04/24/10
• Harris Calls SF Drug Lab Scandal A 'Fiasco' (KTVU) 04/24/10
• Crime lab scandal prompts call for independent testing (ABC 7) 04/24/10
• Crime lab alternatives being probed by police (Examiner) 04/23/10
• Release of lab documents is blocked (Examiner) 04/21/10
• Help to clear crime-lab backlog would tally $3.5M (Examiner) 04/20/10
• SFPD Addresses Supes Over Scandal-Plagued Lab (CBS 5) 04/20/10
• Adachi may look at thousands of drug cases (Chronicle) 04/20/10
• Matier and Ross: Turmoil in D.A. office over drug lab scandal (Chronicle) 04/20/10
• SF crime lab at center of growing scandal (Associated Press) 04/19/10
• Judge to S.F. prosecutor: Dump drug cases (Chronicle) 04/16/10
• Ken Garcia: Let soccer fields be built (Examiner) 04/16/10
• SFPD drug lab technician issues not addressed (Examiner) 04/15/10
• Prosecutor: SFPD ignored tech's unreliability (Chronicle) 04/15/10
• Drug lab 'laughed at' problems, ex-tech says (Chronicle) 04/14/10
• Interview with lab tech details alleged drug skimming (Examiner) 04/14/10
• List: How to Fix S.F.'s Crime Lab (SF Weekly) 04/14/10
• Unclaimed property flooding SFPD evidence room (Examiner) 04/10/10
• Back on the streets: Crime lab scandal frees suspects (Examiner) 04/06/10
• S.F. crime lab's new woes - army of feral cats (Chronicle) 04/04/10
• SFPD drug-lab problems could go back years (Chronicle) 04/02/10
• Embroiled lab tech cashing in (Examiner) 04/02/10
• SF crime lab scandal strains justice system (AP) 04/02/10
• Overworked S.F. drug lab was sloppy, audit says (Chronicle) 03/31/10
• Audit reveals crime-lab chaos (Examiner) 03/31/10
• Report Says SFPD Criminalists Overworked (KCBS) 03/31/10
• Back on the streets: Crime lab scandal frees suspects (Examiner) 03/30/10
• Drug lab scandal jeopardizes hundreds of cases (Chronicle) 03/28/10
• D.A. on verge of mass drug-case dismissals (Chronicle) 03/27/10
• Crime lab fallout grows as drug weights inconsistent (Examiner) 03/26/10
• Judge: Lab-scandal papers must go to defense (Chronicle) 03/26/10
• Jury trials tossed as drug lab problems spread (Examiner) 03/26/10
• Melissa Griffin: Familiar crime lab situation (Examiner) 03/25/10
• SFPD announces drug busts that nets 212 suspects (Examiner) 03/25/10
• Judge reviews lab-probe files (Examiner) 03/24/10
• New problem looms in police lab scandal (Chronicle) 03/24/10
• Tainted DNA adds to SFPD's crime lab issues (Examiner) 03/22/10
• S.F. police shake up crime-lab leadership (Chronicle) 03/20/10
• S.F. police hope officers can do drug testing (Chronicle) 03/19/10
• Man wants case tossed due to crime lab fallout (Examiner) 03/19/10
• SF police get training to test drugs (ABC 7 News) 03/19/10
• S.F. police turn elsewhere for drug-test help (Chronicle) 03/12/10
• SFPD still making drug arrests despite lab closure (Examiner) 03/12/10

Posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 8:06 am