DENVER — The Weld County District Attorney’s Office will not file charges against a former forensic scientist with the sheriff’s office over anomalies discovered in her DNA casework, officials announced
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In the first case to be unhinged by the recent government lab DNA scandal, a man accused of first degree triple murder plead down to second degree murder in Boulder Thursday.
Garrett Coughlin, 30, was sentenced to 42 years in prison for the 2017 murders of Wallace “Lance” White, his wife Kelly Sloat-White, and his brother Emory Fraker.
An esteemed analyst known as "Colorado's star DNA scientist" purposely manipulated evidence for years, involving hundreds (if not more) of the cases she worked on.