IN RE RENEWED INVESTIGATION OF STATE POLICE

No. 32885.

633 S.E.2d 762 (2006)

In the Matter of: RENEWED INVESTIGATION OF THE STATE POLICE CRIME LABORATORY, SEROLOGY DIVISION.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided: June 16, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Castelle, Esq., Public Defender Corporation, Charleston, for Prisoners.

Philip W. Morrison, II, Esq., Special Prosecutor, South Charleston, for the State.


MAYNARD, Justice.

This case concerns a third investigation of the Serology Division of the State Police Crime Laboratory ("Crime Lab"). The specific issue in this case is whether serologists in the Crime Lab, other than Fred Zain, falsified evidence in criminal prosecutions.1 This Court earlier appointed a special judge to conduct an investigation and to render a report. We now adopt the special judge's report to the extent that it finds...

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