# A San Francisco police crime-lab scandal breaks while Harris is DA

Date: 2010

## The fact

In 2010 a San Francisco police crime-lab technician scandal broke, undermining drug cases. Harris’s DA office faced criticism over delayed disclosure.

## Context

SFPD ran the lab. Neighbouring truancy is a different charging file. She did not sit as the technician.

Truancy 2008 is neighbouring. AG 2010 election is later that year.

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## Evidence and sources

San Francisco District Attorney carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is justice: a completed lab-integrity failure with delayed defence disclosure is a dated due-process cost.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2010 SF crime-lab scandal during her DA tenure, independently reported.

Not established: that she personally hid the technician’s file, or a unique later wrongful-conviction coefficient as a completed court tally.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Her office prosecuted the cases and controlled disclosure. Courts later dismissed some counts.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies A San Francisco police crime-lab scandal breaks while Harris is DA, not a later speech about A San Francisco police crime-lab scandal breaks while Harris is DA.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. A San Francisco police crime-lab scandal breaks while Harris is DA on 2010-03-09 is not a licence to treat every later San Francisco District Attorney communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average A San Francisco police crime-lab scandal breaks while Harris is DA into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to SFPD ran the lab. Her office prosecuted the cases and controlled disclosure. Courts later dismissed some counts. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-sanfrancisco-idUSTRE6285D20100309
- https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-crime-lab-2010