BCA Case Work False Match

Sometime in 1999 the Minnesota BCA sent out a report that contained a false match. The report had been reviewed by three people at the BCA. A routine audit of this report discovered the error and two to three weeks later an ammeded report was sent to the Warren Police Department. An interesting side issue that is revealed by this testimony is Ann Gross' answer to Pat Sullivan's question about how often the defense requests the entire DNA file the lab keeps for each case. Ms. Gross estimates that except for Hennepin County (Pat Sullivan's County) it happens less than 5% of the time. Thus, the defense is doing little scrutiny of these types of test results, at least in Minnesota. BCA documents