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SF police lab scandal figure agrees to plea deal
A long-running case against a former San Francisco police crime lab technician ended in a misdemeanor plea bargain Friday when she pleaded guilty in federal court to a reduced charge of possessing cocaine in 2009. Deborah Madden, 63, of San Mateo, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge before U.S. District ...
Former SF crime lab tech expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor
A former San Francisco police crime lab technician accused of taking small amounts of cocaine from her office in 2009 appears to be poised to conclude a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, following two mistrials with hung juries. The federal court docket in the case of Deborah Madden, 62, of ...
Retrial of former SFPD lab technician who took cocaine begins
A retrial began in federal court Tuesday in the case of Deborah Madden, a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician accused of taking small amounts of cocaine from the facility. Madden's first trial in the court of U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco ended in a mistrial ...
Mistrial declared in SFPD lab tech's cocaine-fraud trial
A mistrial was declared in federal court in San Francisco Wednesday when a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the cocaine-fraud trial of a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician. Deborah Madden, 62, of San Mateo, faced a federal charge of obtaining the cocaine from the laboratory ...
Jury begins deliberations in case of SFPD lab technician who took cocaine
A federal jury began deliberating Monday in the case of a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician whose pilfering of cocaine led to the dismissal of hundreds of drug cases. Deborah Madden, 62, of San Mateo, is accused in the court of U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San ...
Madden trial in June, prosecutor says plea bargain unlikely
A federal judge in San Francisco Friday set a trial date of June 18 for a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician accused of stealing cocaine from the facility. Deborah Madden, 61, of San Mateo, was indicted in December on a federal charge of obtaining cocaine by of fraud, ...
SFPD Lab Scandal Figure Pleads Guilty To Drug Charge
A former San Francisco Police Department drug lab employee whose alleged theft of cocaine from evidence set off a scandal at the department has pleaded guilty to a drug possession charge in San Mateo County Superior Court, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Debbie Madden, 61, of San Mateo, was a ...
Murderer To Seek New Trial Over SFPD Lab Scandal
Lawyers for a former San Francisco gang member convicted of three murders told a federal judge Tuesday they will ask for a new trial on the grounds that some evidence from the case might have be thrown into doubt by the city's ongoing crime lab scandal. "We'll have a motion ...
Major Reforms In SFPD After Drug Lab Scandal
San Francisco police Chief George Gascon announced Friday reforms aimed at correcting the flaws that led to a recent crime lab scandal, including new policies for releasing information about department employees with disciplinary histories to defense attorneys."This has been sort of a long and painful road for the San Francisco ...
SFPD Crime Lab Tech Not Likely To Be Charged
The woman accused of stealing cocaine and other drugs at the center of the SFPD crime lab scandal may not be charged, KTVU learned from police sources Thursday.KTVU has learned Deborah Madden was unlikely to be charged in San Francisco and a police source said the department was now trying ...
Gascon: Decision On Madden Could Come Next Week
San Francisco police Chief George Gascon said Wednesday night he hopes the criminal investigation into a former Police Department crime lab employee suspected of stealing drugs from the lab will conclude early next week. Gascon, speaking before the San Francisco Police Commission, said prosecutors from the California Department of Justice ...
Madden May Avoid SF Charges For Lack Of Evidence
While former SF crime lab technician Deborah Madden currently faces a cocaine possession charge in San Mateo County, documents KTVU obtained Wednesday raised the question of whether enough evidence exists to bring criminal charges against her in San Francisco.However, the documents could be the trigger for further shake up in ...
Madden Personnel File Released To KTVU
The judge-ordered release of documents from former SFPD drug lab technician Deborah Madden’s personnel file to KTVU on Thursday provided new insight into the investigation of the scandal-plagued lab.KTVU News obtained hundreds of pages of new information after the judge ordered the police department to release portions of Madden's personnel ...
Judge Orders Drug Evidence Tested By Madden To Be Retested
A San Francisco Superior Court judge Friday granted the release of evidence tested by the former criminalist at the center of the Police Department's drug lab scandal to be retested by a state laboratory. The lab's drug unit has been closed since March 9, when police Chief George Gascon said ...
Public Hearing Airs More Problems With SFPD Crime Lab
There was a good deal of blunt, harsh criticism about the investigation into San Francisco Police Department’s embattled drug lab as the first public hearing focusing on the scandal got underway.Assistant Police Chief Jeff Godown told the city's public safety commission Monday morning that the 11-year-old police crime lab is ...
Madden Appears In Court, Takes The Fifth
Disgraced drug laboratory technician Deborah Madden appeared in a San Francisco court Friday, where she refused to speak.Lawyers in a 2008 DUI case subpoenaed Madden to ask her about accuracy checks she did on equipment in the San Francisco Police’s narcotics lab. But on Friday the retired lab technician was ...
Madden Interview Prompts Call For Independent Probe
KTVU has learned that some 1,000 documents related to the Deborah Madden investigation were released Wednesday night amid the fallout from Madden's recently released taped police interview, even as the call for an independent probe into the SFPD lab scandal grows.Public defender Jeff Adachi called the taped police interview with ...
Public Defender Calls For New Crime Lab Independent Of SFPD
Ongoing concerns about the integrity of evidence tested at San Francisco's crime lab prompted Public Defender Jeff Adachi to call Thursday for a new lab independent of police and prosecutors. Adachi said at a news conference he is still trying to learn how many drug cases may be linked to ...
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