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Drylabbing is creating scientific data without performing any tests. Used in particular to describe the act of a forensicslaboratory creating reports without performing any tests of the crime sceneevidence. A term of contempt. Forensics or forensic science is the application of science to questions which are of interest to the legal system as well as social sciences such as archaeology. ... Biochemistry laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... A crime scene is a location where an illegal act took place, and comprises the area from which most of the physical evidence is retrieved by forensic scientists. ... Evidence can mean: Any observable event which tends to prove or disprove a proposition, see scientific method and reality. ...
The investigation into the lab is being headed by Michael Bromwich, a former U.S. Justice Department official. He found that the "drylabbing" reports were issued by two analysts between 1998 and 2000.
One of the analysts, who has since resigned, once fabricated conclusions that sent an innocent man to prison for four years for rape. In a later instance of misconduct, he used results from a colleague's testing in his own case file.
In each of the four cases, the analysts' supervisors caught the misrepresentations before the evidence was introduced in court, but the two employees responsible for the "drylabbing" results were punished with no more than a four-day suspension.
Each of these drylabbing incidents was detected by a line supervisor in the controlled substances section and referred for disciplinary action.
Each of the four drylabbing incidents discussed in the Second Report was detected by a supervisor early enough that none of the incidents resulted in false drug analyses being introduced in court or otherwise used to obtain a conviction.
Bromwich, “Although we view these instances of scientific fraud as egregious, they appear to be isolated and not at all representative of the work of the controlled substances section or the Crime Lab as a whole.
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