Funds to contest crime lab evidence go unused
Photo credit: NCPD | A file photo of the Nassau County police crime lab in Mineola.
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Nassau County has failed since last fall to find a way to notify convicts who can't afford attorneys that $140,000 is available to help them challenge convictions related to faulty evidence-testing at the shuttered police crime lab.
The state Office of Indigent Legal Services made the money available after Nassau applied for it. The office will not directly pay attorneys -- as a condition...
