A drug lab scandal could jeopardize a number of closed drug cases in Delaware – even those where the defendant confessed.
The Office of the Public Defender is questioning another state chemist who was disciplined three separate times for not handling evidence properly.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that court documents show Assistant Public Defender Nicole Walker has argued that this misconduct could cause credibility problems in other cases.
Walker argued that the Division of Forensic Science is still not functioning as it should.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Safety and Homeland Security told the paper that the chemist in question was no longer working for the new lab.
The old drug lab in the medical examiner’s office was shut down after a scandal that found the mishandling of evidence.
It also resulted in the departure of the medical examiner.
