Colorado’s public defenders on Friday called for funding to mount a response to revelations that a Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist mishandled DNA testing in hundreds of cases and s…
Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods prepares a known blood sample for DNA analysis as part of a sexual assault investigation at the agency’s lab in Lakewood, Colorado, on Aug. 13, 2003. Colorado’s public defenders on Friday called for state funding to mount a response to revelations that a Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist mishandled DNA testing in hundreds of cases and superiors within the agency failed to stop her misconduct for years.
The longtime DNA scientist widely and routinely deleted, manipulated and altered DNA data in her lab work, the CBI report found. The agency has identified problems in more than 650 of Woods’ cases, and the review is still ongoing. She retired in lieu of termination last year after a When the agency requested the $5 million in January, the plan was to split that funding between the public defender’s office and the Office of Alternate Defense Counsel, which provides attorneys to indigent people when the public defender’s office cannot, testimony in budget hearings showed.that was given to the CBI on Jan. 18 to address Woods’ misconduct. About $4.4 million of that funding was set aside for district attorney’s offices to use to address claims of wrongful conviction.
“There may be a need, there may not be a need,” Republican Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer said. “I don’t know, and nobody else really knows until they start digging and find out what is going on.”
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