Criminal lawyers are now sifting through hundreds of Queensland convictions where a verdict was secured on the basis of flawed blood testing processes.
Criminal lawyers are sifting through hundreds of cases where convictions were obtained by police on the strength of what is now known to be flawed blood samples.
"It logically follows that if suspect practices have resulted in prosecutions not being properly advanced, then those same suspect practices are likely to have been in existence in cases where a person has been convicted on DNA findings that were not properly disclosed and as such that person may have a right to request a reconsideration of their conviction if the prosecution placed before the jury suspect DNA evidence at their trials.
He said it related to “convicted persons in circumstances where suspect evidence was placed before juries to secure convictions’’.
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