Yahoo

Rhode Island State Crime Lab suspends firearms forensic testing pending review

Bullet casings under examination at the state crime lab in 2023. (Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) A national firearms database used by Rhode Island State Crime Lab last month flagged a ...
Yahoo

Rhode Island state crime lab faces full accreditation review amid forensic errors

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOUTH KINGSTOWN - A state laboratory that examines and analyzes gun-related evidence in Rhode Island criminal cases is scheduled ...
The Providence Journal

Analysis of links between guns, bullets, casings comes under scrutiny at state crime lab

The analysis that raised eyebrows at the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory involved a drive-by shooting that killed a Massachusetts man in Pawtucket in 2021. Some criminalists at the nationally ...
The Providence Journal

Neronha backs proposal to place state crime lab in AG's office. Why RI's public defender objects

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Public Defender Collin Geiselman are pushing for reform of the state's crime lab, but from different directions. Neronha criticizes the current ...