If a detective or an attorney asks you not to process an item for fingerprints, or perform certain comparisons (perhaps it may hurt his case), should the termination of the request be granted (i.e., just do what is asked)? Or should an agency or LPE perform all processing/comparisons that is submitted that might add information to a case? If a request is terminated, we might not know the reason, maybe someone plead guilty, and the case is closed. Maybe the guilty plea is a false confession
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What if a defense attorney asks for additional items to be processed, should this request be granted?
What if a prosecutor asks you to review a suspected erroneous ID from another agency? If you would review the comparison, would you also review a comparison if a defense attorney suspected an error?
I'm curious to hear what people think are agency/LPE's responsibilities.