DNA lab working D.C. rape cases has checkered history

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The private lab that is helping the District clear its massive DNA backlog lost a major state contract last year after that state claimed to have found errors in a quarter of its tested samples.

Earlier this year, Bode Technology Group was awarded a nearly $60,000 contract with D.C. police to test samples from 100 unsolved rapes. Bode completed the tests two weeks ago and handed the results to the Metropolitan Police Department.

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