Kamala Harris, then San Francisco’s district attorney, fields questions on April 23, 2010, in the ongoing investigation of evidence tampering in the city's crime lab. But for much of 2010, the crime lab scandal pitted them against each other. Lab director Jim Mudge shows criminalist Deborah Madden's work station at the police crime lab on March 10, 2010. He decided not to raise the specifics of the crime lab issue, while calling her a “radical” who threatened public safety. But she told her deputies after the crime lab scandal to alert her about serious problems: “Hey, I need to know these things.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2019 21:23 UTC