This DNA Scandal Could Overturn THOUSANDS of Criminal Convictions
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- Thousands of DNA samples may need to be retested after it was discovered forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods altered data. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks. Your Support is Crucial to the Show: tyt.com/team
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"For nearly three decades, Yvonne “Missy” Woods was Colorado’s star forensic scientist, relied on by police and prosecutors to test DNA evidence in the state’s most baffling crimes.
Her work was considered the gold standard by colleagues and helped put away infamous murderers, including the “Colorado Hammer Killer.”"
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Imagine how many people died in jail and they were possibly innocent because of this corrupt individual
Yeah I can imagine the brutal death of someone falsely convicted of a child sex crime and the inmates think the state got it right with DNA as proof before the shanking or bone breaking
There was a tester that was greedy & lazy. She didn't test DNA but did the slides for pap smears. She received $2.00 per slide. She marked a substantial number as benign but didn't really examine them. When women went to their doctors repeatedly for persistent symptoms the doctor thought it was "in their heads". Some women went to different doctors for second opinions. But the doctors all used the same lab. Then the number of women dying from cancer grew in that region & autopsies performed showed cancer . The lab worker's sloppy work habits surfaced thru an iinvestigation. There needs to be more oversight for labs . One dishonest lab tech can be a high casualty serial killer .
Every case that falls inside the parameters will be appealed and the results will be catastrophic. Hundreds of people could have been wrongly convicted, but dangerous criminals will also be released back into society. This is really bad!
Perhaps you didn't go deeper. Some folk have died in jail that may have been wrongly convicted. That state may go bankrupt because of her pride
Ridiculous, DNA evidence should be tested by two separate labs that are regularly audited.
The cost is astronomical $$$💙
@@BlueBonnie764 true, but the cost of a wrongful conviction or innocent verdict is higher and I'm sure we can find ways of cost reduction
@@brian_atc
You're right. They do a lousy job of 'making it right'. How do you give someone years? 🤨
Defendants should be granted an independent DNA expert for any case involving possible prison time if State claims DNA is involved in the case to convict🤔
I have known labs were corrupt for a long time. I went in for a drug screening for a job. I don’t do drugs. I am an aircraft mechanic. I had not heard from the company. So, I called to se why. They told me I tested positive for drug use. I was surprised as I knew I did not touch any drugs. I did not know how to fight it. A week later I was called by another employer which required the same test from another state. It was clean, and I took the same test around the same time. Just moved on, but this report brought it back to mind.
This is why anytime a person could lose their freedom or life, the labs need to double check all results for accuracy.
They need a double check with neither know the results.
Unsettling
A botched test can decide custody cases...ruining families. How do you give a parent back years of the childs development. Saw it a hundred times.Once they have your kids, it's a done deal. STOP THEM, imprison them.🆘
If I was innocent and sent to prison because of her for the last 30 years, I’d be back in prison after being released. That’s all I can say after that.
Amen🙏🏾🙏🏾
Wow! It's bad enough when you have little to no faith in the justice system, but now we can't trust forensics?!
In 2009 the National Academy of Sciences published a study entitled “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward." Their report called into question the scientific basis for nearly all forensic disciplines used to convict people in the US. At the time, Obama's Attny General, Loretta Lynch, was in office and declined to implement the panels' recommendations that suggested that in order to avoid erroneous convictions based on what they deemed junk science, they should cease to be used in lieu of more verifiable, reliable techniques and evidence. Shockingly, the DOJ was more concerned that acknowledgement of the study and any federal level implementation to eliminate these various "scientific" methods would call convictions into question nationwide. The cost to the government to retest and retry cases and, most importantly, opening various state and federal jurisdictions up to litigation by the wrongly convicted was not a risk the DOJ was willing to take.
The above is far more troublesome than a lone, demented scientist (while still highly damaging) falsifying results to satisfy their careerist ambitions. Often, this abandonment of ethical duties is done to satisfy the states lust to incarcerate individuals on otherwise thin evidence. Using junk science, though, and that's what many of these methods are (think; forensic odentology, ear/palm/etc. print analysis, even blood splatter analysis) continues to put exponentially more individuals behind bars than rouge lab techs dotted throughout the country.
Think about this the next time you get jury duty on a death penalty or life without parole eligible case.
Yes all evidence is stored, kept, analyzed by people which can manipulate the data/ evidence easily. These people are supposed to be credible in this instance all cases should be thrown out not people wrongfully convicted sitting in prison waiting for another test just based on the 5th(The Fifth Amendment breaks down into five rights or protections: the right to a jury trial when you're charged with a crime, protection against double jeopardy, protection against self-incrimination, the right to a fair trial) amendments. As well as the due process violations clause which states the prosecutor or government actors can't cheat the fairness process of court proceedings Add to the fact that the falsified DNA evidence was most likely the #1 reason these people are behind bars means the prosector didn't prove their case and the DNA expert committed at the very least fraud, forgery, and perjury all cases should be thrown out.
@@jackmehoph711 once a guilty verdict it changes from 'innocent until proven guilty' to 'guilty until proven innocent'.
@@STCatchMeTRACjRo once your charged it's guilty until proven innocent.. judge, prosecutor lawyers work together to get quick plea deals 98% of cases. then defendant goes in front of judge to accept plea deal and the judge asks the defendant if anyone promised him/her anything and their forced to say no even though judge prosecutor and lawyers know different. Court systems about money and injustice never justice
Why are we surprised, why? Are you gonna tell these people they've been wronged, once it's discovered, by YOU?
Some people think they're "god". Why wasn't she sus before?
Who's gonna pay these people for lives lost, years gone? SHE needs to go to jail. She knew she was wrong. It became personal for her.
They can't print enough money to compensate these people.
The fact that America 🇺🇸 has over 2 million people in prison! This comes as no shock to me.
Now all of those involved in the obscene amount of Americans incarcerated will glean even more financial benefits 👿
This is so wide spread throughout our society from the prison janitors, all of the way to the Supreme Court! Americas total economy is fed by the judicial system and prisons for profit! I am disgusted 🤬
I think at the minimum, every test that her lab has done should be redone. Even tests she did not directly perform could have been altered by her. She should be charged with fraud, perjury, etc.
If we are to put a lot of weight in DNA evidence, we need to have redundant testing for it everytime.
It would be a tragedy if even *ONE* person was wrongly convicted and sitting in prison due to faulty DNA testing from that woman!
Not only are innocent people wrongfully convicted, but now several guilty people could be released due to this
No the guilty are roaming around
@@MattyNelson-rs3ikgreat point .
wow, someone who works for the authorities lied on their behalf, that's never happened before
The law enforcement agencies will not allow the public to see the misconduct and other criminal violations of abusing the public with false evidence or other forms of unlawful prosecution in any form that would show the justice system is completely untrustworthy and biased in its handling of cases that are necessary to ensure that they will be reelected to office and that the public’s finances will be granted to their agencies to provide them with the funds to do whatever they want without any legal consequences or removal from their duties as public servants in authority over the citizens!
A DNA sample should be required to be verified multiple times by multiple separate entities before being allowed in court. A botched identification should be criminal in and of itself. These people need to check their work multiple times. Who's overseeing their work?
We had a similar case in Massachusetts. A forensics technician had faked over a thousand drug cases. Even her husband testified she was a compulsive liar. Also, the case of the trainer/owner of a famous corpse sniffing dog was found to have planted medical samples of bone when the dog was called in on murder cases.
I think the jury needs to learn see how these DNA tests work. I feel like 20 tries 1 might work but of course supervisors want quick and cheap.
The State doesn’t care about guilt or innocence. They always just want to win.
With privately owned prisons I’m surprised there aren’t more innocent people in American prisons.
I’m sure there are tons of people wrongfully convicted. Prosecutors want to convict as many people as possible because they think it makes them look “tough on crime”. Sheriffs want to arrest people for the same reason. private prison companies push for excessive punishment to keep more people in prison for longer amounts of time because they get paid by the state. Often the goal is to arrest somebody as opposed to the correct person.
The incarceration industry is one of the biggest & most corrupt industries in murica. Previous commenter is correct about DAs needing convictions, & cops needing busts. Z
This turns my stomach! As the nephew of the first murder victim of the first ever DNA convicted killer every time it gets used incorrectly feels like an insult to my Auntie Lynda Mann!
If it turns out this person did either purposefully misled multiple jury's (Be it by careless work or just a lack of caring) to convict then she should face punishment.
The chances are she has wrecked countless lives & I hope those that are innocent are quickly released.
It is better that 100 guilty men be found innocent than for 1 innocent man to be found guilty.
They preferred to incarcerate all 101 so that the state can pay 100k a year per inmate. That’s 10,100,000 a year to the jail system.
Nope, sorry, i don't buy that.
@@marcosolo6491
So you as an innocent man wrongly convicted you would be ok with being in prison with 100 guilty men? What if you were told you could be released but only if the 100 guilty men were released as well? Would you say "no thanks, I'll stay here because it's better that way?
Colorado? How many other states/counties has this been happening to across the United States? racism is an all-time high. The Takeaway is that is far from perfect and we need to safeguard these things from happening.
Where's all the WS to call this woman a DEI hire? They're unusually quiet about this one.
😂😂😂... they will never admit that they benefited more than any other group
They are silent on this. You are correct this is the face of DEI hires. They don’t like to
Admit that. They even attempted to blame DEI (code for B people) for Boeing but that failed as well. Don’t sleep on this though. As things get worse they are planning on blaming B people for everything that goes south. This is just the beginning…..
Human error is one thing but this story reeks of something far more sinister.
“It was a blow to my ego.”!
That’s scary.
DNA has never been as perfect as we make it out to be.
3K cases are probably a drop in the bucket. Time to retest samples in every state. Especially those defendants without paid legal council. #ThatPoliticalLife
Regardless of the outcome, this is going to be a devastating process for all the *victims* involved in the affected cases as well.
Put this woman in prison
WTF... WHERE WAS HER SUPERVISOR? Why is there no oversight? JUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO BE BLIND NOT STUPID.
Most supervisors just collecting a check and going out w subordinates for drinks.
And this happens all across America on a daily basis. But we don't live in a police state. 🙄
Yes we do.
This must be an example of that American Exceptionalism 😂😂😂
I think of all those cases that I heard of in the 1980s where a drug test got mixed up at a testing lab, and a person got denied a job. While the probability of thes DNA being that of somebody else's is extremely UNLIKELY you still have a single point of failure if you're only having one lab tests that DNA. All of these DNA tests should be run through a minimum of two Labs if not three and all three should come back saying it's a match!
@Meli24578 yes I did mean extremely low. I was thinking of an extremely high number as in the odds of it being on somebody else's are billions and billions to one. So yeah I got my wires crossed.
@Meli24578 It's even worse. Apparently even if you finish high school, you don't learn the difference between a simple mistake and actual ignorance, or how to respond to either of them in a helpful way.
F that them court cases got to be thrown out
Holy cow!!! How can this happen???? Why was she missing information in her testing?? Yikes
Oh, my sweet summer, not-Colorado children.
Anyone who has had dealings with the Colorado justice system could see this coming.
Arapahoe County in particular has been known for 40 years for being insanely corrupt. It is where Aurora is, where they killed Elijah McClain, and threw that black family on the asphalt in the summer heat, including small children. The former DA there tried to charge a little girl, like 7, with arson for accidentally burning down her house while playing with matches. That was just the straw that broke the camel's back, she was also indicted several times, found to have given favorable deals to people she knew, and gave her assistant DA's $1000 bonus per felony conviction.
Why? Because she had partial ownership of several companies that sold goods to the Arapahoe County Justice Center. As a teenager I got in a bit of trouble, my lawyer knew one of the judges, said he was known as one of the most corrupt, inept and draconian in the state. He was removed from the bench for ruling unfairly, outlandishly, on dozens of cases, sentencing teenagers to the county jail instead of juvenile center, probably because the juvenile center costs the county more.
And while Arapahoe may be the worst, Weld, Logan, Jefferson, Park counties are all awful too. We have the most prisons per capita anywhere. We have more private prisons than any other state even close to us in population. The worst of the worst criminals have been sent here from all around the country for decades, and we have numerous towns that have an economy based around a prison and one other industry or maybe college.
Thanks , I often think about visiting Colorado for the slopes and the scenic train. I lower it down the bucket list.
@@SmirkInvestigator It is still a wonderful place. I love living here. Just don't commit felonies.
Elijah McClain wasa a thug and a man key.
Thank you. Please do follow up with this one. You're appreciated and may Justice be committed and prevail for all. 🕊🌎🖼
They’re not gonna follow up with us. They’re so backlog with stories, they skip most of them. But yet on a claims, she tortures herself every time she puts a story together.
Why isn't she in jail awaiting trial on fraud,perjury, etc?
I believe in DNA..however I also believe there are ways of planting DNA to make themselves heros..
Trust science. Don't trust people.
Or NASA!
Now why isn't this lady locked up?
You said it. Lady
Every test has 2 failure modes, wrongfull positive identification, and wrongfull negative identification. There are also criminals that could finally face justice and have escaped it up to now.
Maybe two separate techs should run the test each time. These are criminal cases! It’s worth a second test
Wow unbelievable.
This exact thing happened in NY several years ago.
Central Park 5 and Donald John Trump
@@Devon1122Memory has it Trump was buying full page ads in the Big Apple recommending the death penalty, along with the usual non-apology when they were exonerated.
Why is only 1 person responsible for finding results? That seems like a shitty system from the start
She is one of many. There was the lab tech in Atlanta.......Annie Dookan in Massachusetts....etc.
the science is not at fault, it is a 'faulty' forensic scientist.
Of course it is you Just in denial the age of this delusion is coming to a end cope.
Why are you concerned about tax payers money? You should be concerned about the people who are convicted innocently. In cases like this I don't have a problem with paying taxes to get this straight.
Cuz anyway the cut goes, it's taxpayer dollars paying to represent them (in some cases), house them, educate them, give them medical/dental care and/or assistance and whatever else it takes to sustain them while incarnated to serve out the sentence Meanwhile if the family is struggling, taxpayer dollars do the same for them.
Ever thought of that?
well lets see... who all are affected by this?
1 wrongfully convicted,
2 rightfully convicted who get released, because her properly processed evidence comes under enhanced scrutiny,
3 families of '1'
4 families of the future victims of '2'
5 taxpayers who paid for both trials of '1' and '2'
6 taxpayers who pay the settlements of '1'
7 taxpayers who pay the potential settlements of '2' under the "but for" legal doctrine
8 taxpayers who pay for this techs defense against every single one of the cases of '1' and '2'
9 taxpayers who pay the defense of the city, state and county who employed her
now understand that each of those 9 (not all inclusive) are receiving money not from her (under the current state of QI) but from the government (fyi the government has no money of its own...) thus every single $ is taxpayer $.
your argument reeks of diminishing all crimes beyond one victim because you think that only the worst case deserves justice.
as for you not caring about paying taxes to cover all of those settlements and court/attorney fees... i think if you lived in the state or city that goes bankrupt over these settlements you might care that your taxes get raised to cover them especially when all the things that your taxes normally cover now take a back seat to paying off debts incurred by the state on behalf of this criminal.
all her test should be redone !!!!!
Anytime the govt accuses someone, the default position is not to believe them. I would now go a step further and assume they are lying and trying to frame the defendant to ruin their lives.
Over a hair and the woman's word??? That's like claiming my neighbor shot me and the only evidence is a scratch on my arm.
Guy needs to counter sue for defamation and wrongful imprisonment
Law &Order did this case years ago
AGAIN!? This happened here in NY as well. Apparently the lab worker had some sort of sociopathic need to be praised. So they were literally just making the results up, so their bosses would think they were really fast and efficient at their jobs.
It's interesting to hear Colorado's government indicating that they intend to rectify this situation justly. That doesn't seem to be what happens in NY, the operators in the justice system here will do anything to keep the cases they worked on from being overturned, regardless of the facts. I hope Colorado does the right thing, otherwise potential victims will have to fight tooth and nail to get anything so much as started.
This could free my friend JoJo ,
He had an alibi for the night that they said that he raped a woman, and they never presented accurate evidence yet they still convicted him
Anyone else you could have brought up. But you have the call on a case of a Deadman, disturbing and idiotic. Rip Kobe
The process is flawed if there are not multiple independent verifications. Even an honest mistake should not be the basis for a conviction.
Cases need to be verfied by multiple offices.
I would rather free some guilty people than keep a bunch of innocent people in jail. That would be a nightmare to be convicted on false evidence. She should be arrested and put in jail if this is real.
Remember that the innocent was wrongly accused but the guilty walked free. This is why it is important to get it right, even if takes a little longer.
The thing is she is not the first and she will not be the last especially when it comes to black men and hispanic men and women there are thousands placed in jail every year and they are innocent
This is a historical fact with police agencies lying toying with facts of the case yet no oversight ever solution polygraph for people in positions of evidence presenting before trial . Sorry never see that in my life time they will fight it till death so sad so Obvious
They found that guys hair years later? Possibly after he had to submit hair to be tested the first time. DNA should never be done by a lab run by the prosecution. Multiple labs need to be involved while the testing is done. There is no price too high for justice. Maybe then fewer dumb cases will be brought.
There’s probably an even bigger problem with multiple police officers having worked for decades despite mishandling evidence or giving false testimony, that - partly because it’s wider and deeper - won’t be addressed.
wow, "faulty evidence" not "evidence tampering" Just like a gun, it is harmless untampered with....
This is sickening.
Please keep us updated on this story!
In organic chemistry 2 I would falsify/ alter samples of my testing data because I kind of knew what the predetermined outcome for my lab class should be. This happens a lot in this space.
SHE RETIRED IN NOVEMBER IF SHE IS FOUND TO BE GUILTY ,HER RETIREMENT PENSION SHOULD BE REVOKED.
Don't forget jailed.
what about jon benat ramsey case.
Ana, I remember watching a documentary about two chemists working in a forensic lab for drug abuse from Massachusetts that worked in Boston and Anhurst , that had also falsified test results.
The docu mini series is called 'How to Fix a Drug Scandal'. If it is still on Netflix it is worth watching.
I have a feeling the development of the story about falsified DNA testing might go in the same direction: a multiple organ failure.
@6:45 to answer Ana's question. Because she has proven that she will give the D.A. whatever results they need.
P.S.if that man that was convicted on her second kick at the can, is killed in prison for being a sex offended before another DNA proves his innocence, she should be charged with murder.
It will offset the entire country. So this is major .
All it takes is one rotten apple..
Adams county in Colorado police and paramedics do the same. They swabed my mouth and accidentally threw the swab in the bio trash with other samples. They had to fish in the bin for my sample and when I asked to be retested I was denied. I told em the sample was contaminated.
This cant be a isolated incidents
People in positions like that become egomaniacs and narcissistic they crave the attention of their work and see themselves doing something others can't
Psalms 94: 20 and 21 in full effect.
WOW LOOKED UP THE VERSE 👍🏿
I can't imagine the one who went to the death penalty..
I worked in a lab and the results always get sloppy when the technician is overwhelmed and the lab is short staffed.Government labs don’t attract the best workers because they don’t pay as well as private sector jobs.There is always a backlog and technicians have to work speedily doing things that should take longer In minutes.
I always wished that I could get a job like that. It is really sad to hear about this scandal.
Smells like the Boston drug scandal when a lab technician decided to do batch ruling based on one test and get friendly with the prosecutors.
If so, I’m wondering: Did she have any knowledge of the cases themselves when she was testing? Because if that were true, the entire system needs to be reformed.
We are learning like in Massachusetts some of these lab people see themselves as part of the team doing their best to convict whoever the cops says is guilty
You know how much this will cost in legal proceedings and law suites. They will keep these people in jail to get around paying all those people who were wrongfully thrown in jail.
Didn't they have the death penalty before 2020 so it's possible innocent people died because of her ?
This woman dna analysist needs to go to prison and into solitary confinement for life with no parole ….
Thousands of cases and the 1st one they bring up is a man who us no longer living!🤨
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Microcomparison of hair samples has nothing to do with DNA analysis, that's basically just seeing if they look the same under a microscope. Which is reliant on the individual looking at the sample, they have had the same issues with fingerprints and the different standards required to confirm a match from State to State, and even between different labs in the same states.
I'm sure they botched the Jonbenet Ramsey DNA results.
Even when no errors were made in the lab, such evidence is often misrepresented in court.
The juries are told the odds of misidentification are billions to one against. But that would only be true if the perpetrator left a swab of their cells in a sterile container at the scene.
Most samples are a partial match because of contamination at the crime scene.
Finger print evidence has the same issue.
In the Madrid train bombings a partial fingerprint was lifted from the remains of a bomb. This led to the immediate arrest of a man in the USA who had never been out of the country!
They should get the FBI to do the retesting. Colorado has vested interest in not finding the truth.
All cases should be thrown out not retested based on constitutional rights 5th-8th amendments add to the fact the prosection thus didn't prove their cases and used the same cheating fraudulent expert to test again in cases after she was found to cheat that alone violates due process the prosection knew she falsified before, due process means their not allowed to cheat the fairness of evidence and fairness in a trial..
Thanks for the video keep up the great work
Netflix had a documentary about a splatter analysis expert that was doing something similar.
A simple fix is to have two independent labs conduct the work - DONE - FIXED - Applause please
Oh, oh! Chick should be looking at some lock-up time, too. CSI gone wrong. Grissam and Horacio are shocked & appauled. Lol
For all you sick people out there who want some prisoners to be tortured, just remember, they might be innocent
97,1% of them are guilty though.
@@Porter90 so you’re OK with innocent people being executed and even tortured?
The justice system can’t be beat .
Not the first time. Same as the Fred Zane story decades before....
Hair comparison isn’t DNA comparison
Just maybe she was doing it on purpose either for money or just pure evil...
Both