Every Los Angeles criminal defense attorney has faced police errors, either in the not following proper procedure, fudging paper work or some other mistake that enables the attorney to help his/her client beat the charges. Not every error is done with malice, but Los Angeles criminal attorneys with a keen eye for detail can be incredibly valuable when mistakes are made by law enforcement.
In Los Angeles, it was recently reported that police have arrested innocent people due to faulty fingerprint analysis but have not determined how many cases were affected by such errors, police officials said. A confidential police report details two cases in which charges were dropped after problems with the fingerprint analysis were discovered. Police blame shoddy work and poor oversight for the mistakes.
One fingerprint analyst, who was involved in both the mishandled cases, was fired and three others were suspended last year after internal investigations. Two supervisors in the department's latent print unit were replaced.
The report details the case of a pregnant hospital technician who was charged with breaking into a store in February 2006 because of an erroneous fingerprint identification. The department said prints in that case were lost and could not be re-examined. The charge was dropped.
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