This is one of the most extraordinary cases in the annals of criminal justice in our town.

I don't think there would be any legal basis to resist that.

That deadline has come and gone.

Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the prosecutor or the defense.

Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the prosecutor or the defense,

My fear is that the debate over sequential blind will obscure everything, and you'll have police departments who are reluctant to change at all, or not adopt anything.