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 CLEVELAND (AP) - An ongoing audit of the city's crime lab criticizes a fired forensic analyst for following poor procedures but says there is no evidence that he intentionally misled juries with his testimony, an Associated Press review shows.
The city of Cleveland fired Joseph Serowik in 2004 over his work in the case of Michael Green, who was accused of rape. Green's conviction was overturned on DNA evidence, and the settlement of his $1.6 million civil lawsuit included the provision that 17 years of the police laboratory's work involving Serowik get an outside review.
Since then, an outside legal center has accused Serowik of either missing important evidence or lying to juries, and has requested new trials for two defendants whose murder cases were reviewed.
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