Lab tech's claims could jeopardize thousands of court cases
The ex-worker said he didn't verify toxicology reports as expected.
9News
By Bazi Kanani
Published: Sunday, April 5, 2009 12:30:00 AM MDT
What a former laboratory technician said he did while working at a lab in Broomfield could call thousands of Colorado court cases into question.
Prosecutors in California are already reviewing more than 8,000 cases he might have worked on there.
"We are just in the early stages of figuring out the scope of what this man did," said Brian Connors, chief deputy at the Office of the Colorado Public Defender.
Thirty-year-old Aaron C. Layton worked at Forensic Laboratories in Broomfield in 2000 and 2001. The company has since relocated to Denver. It performs drug and alcohol toxicology tests for numerous law enforcement agencies, county probation departments and even private businesses. While working at the lab, Layton testified in trials in Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson and Weld counties, and possibly others.
