23-04-2019 22:35 via kvoa.com

NYC reaches $1 million settlement with toxicologist

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $1 million to a toxicologist who says she was forced from her job in 2015 after raising questions about a type of DNA testing.
Marina Stajic advocated for more transparency about “low copy number” DNA testing, used when only tiny amounts of DNA can be collected.
Many prosecutors and forensic experts hailed the method but critics called it unreliable.
Stajic was a longtime director of the office’s Forensic Toxicology Laborato
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