Empty Evidence Bag, Unopened Lock: How a Field Test Ruined a Life
Empty Evidence Bag, Unopened Lock: How a Field Test Ruined a LifeA single phrase - "almost immediately" - written in a police incident report would undo a jury conviction and reopen a life. An empty, sealed Hollins County evidence bag found dry and untampered in a field, tagged to Case 17-CR-0441, forced investigators to ask how a test that should take eight to twelve minutes could react in seconds; what else did that reaction hide?In this episode, we recount the chain of events from the May 2017 traffic stop through the discovery in May 2019 and the intake that revived the case, tracing how…
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