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[quote=Anonymous]I am a former prosecutor.

This case is heartbreaking because it painfully exemplifies the shortcomings of state crime laboratories and the ridiculous backlogs of evidence handling.

Regular people watch TV shows about law enforcement that are so far out of keeping with reality, they just can't understand that it is standard operating procedure for LEOs to wait months for the toxicology and any other advanced testing that is required to establish cause of death or to match evidence against suspects so that death certificates can be issued and/or charges be brought in certain crimes where they exist.

The facts of this case seem clear on their face to me: there are no signs of foul play, or law enforcement would be all over the resident/friend of the home where the bodies where found. The only logical assumption is that, like many other cases we have seen reported in the news in recent years, these guys all took some drugs together and they all became incapacitated together and most likely died of respiratory failure before the cold even set into their bodies.

I feel for the families in their anguish. Both parties like to talk about being tough on crime, but the criminal justice system has been chronically underfunded since I first started working in it nearly 30 years ago. If we funded the system properly the families would likely know the answer to what happened within days, instead of months. But because of chain of custody, etc., the state is not going to release the evidence to a private lab for testing which, at a price, could get the answers very quickly. [/quote]

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