MINEOLA, N.Y. — The district attorney plans to have drug evidence in as many as 3,000 drunken driving cases retested because of questions over the accuracy of results from the Nassau County crime lab.
Newsday reports that Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice wants to review all blood-alcohol cases over the past three years. That’s a significant increase from last month when Rice said she’d ask for a review of 20 percent of the cases.
Rice’s office said the majority of felony drug cases from 2008-2009 that will be retested have been disposed of in the courts.
On Monday, a judge ordered a retrial in a drunken driving case because of revelations of inaccuracies involving drug analysis at the lab. It’s the first case ordered retried since the lab was shut down last month.