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A state forensic lab<\/a> has just announced that it will no longer endorse several of its test results used in the prosecution of DUI cases. The Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment’s Chief Medical Officer stated last Thursday that the State’s blood test lab will not stand by 33 of the 12000 test results reviewed during the investigation. Experienced defense attorneys<\/a> may soon take advantage of this breaking news to possibility vacate their client’s OUI convictions or dismiss the charges all together if the prosecution has relied on lab reports released from the state’s lab. <\/p>\n

The Department’s Chief Medical Officer sent a letter<\/a> to a local police chief stating that an internal investigation led to the discovery of an incorrect procedure followed by one of the lab’s employees over the span of 7 months in 2013-2014. According to the letter, this was strictly an isolated incident of human error, and does not effect the results of any other test conducted by the lab. <\/p>\n

This news comes less than a year after the criminal sentencing of Annie Dookhan<\/a> who pleaded guilty to more than two dozen counts of filing false reports, tampering with evidence, and misleading police officers.<\/p>\n

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