The Denver Police Department’s crime lab has now significantly expanded its review of DNA testing previously done by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s troubled forensic lab, bringing the total to more than 1,300 past sexual assault cases in the area.
That is more than triple the CBI cases the city’s crime lab said in April it would re-examine in the wake of the ongoing scandal at the state lab.
At the time Denver police said its lab would review 422 area sexual assault cases dating back to 2013 that had been previously handled by former forensic scientist Yvonne Woods at CBI. The unusual move was to check for accuracy and presumably determine if suspects may have escaped prosecution because of faulty testing…