Other crime lab challenges possible?
Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy | A file photo of Erin Marino, 30, outside a Mineola courtroom. (Feb. 17, 2011)
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Nassau crime lab woes
A Nassau judge Monday threw out a Hicksville woman's drunken driving conviction because of "potentially tainted evidence" from the county police crime lab, a ruling that could spur a flood of challenges to other convictions.
Judge George Peck ruled that in Erin Marino's nonjury case, he may have ruled differently had he known about the problems at the lab, which did not surface until about...
