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Prosecutors’ patchwork approach to notifying defendants about CBI lab scandal fuels calls for statewide action

Colorado Bureau of Investigation has so far identified problems in more than 650 of Yvonne “Missy” Woods’ cases

Yvonne "Missy" Woods, a forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, testifies in a Boulder courtroom on July 23, 2009, during the trial of Kevin Elmarr, who was accused of killing his ex-wife, Carol Murphy, in 1987. Elmarr was convicted in the 2009 trial, but that verdict was later overturned because jurors had not been allowed to hear evidence of alternate suspects. He was convicted again following a second trial in 2015. (Marty Caivano, Daily Camera)
Yvonne “Missy” Woods, a forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, testifies in a Boulder courtroom on July 23, 2009, during the trial of Kevin Elmarr, who was accused of killing his ex-wife, Carol Murphy, in 1987. Elmarr was convicted in the 2009 trial, but that verdict was later overturned because jurors had not been allowed to hear evidence of alternate suspects. He was convicted again following a second trial in 2015. (Marty Caivano, Daily Camera)
DENVER, CO - DECEMBER 4: Shelly Bradbury - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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The process for people convicted of crimes to act on those notifications is convoluted, and puts the onus on former defendants to either hire attorneys or to go through complicated legal procedures on their own, experts told The Post.
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