Pubdate: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 Source: Trentonian, The (NJ) Copyright: 2016 The Associated Press Contact: http://www.trentonian.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1006 TECH'S LAX ANALYSIS RAISES QUESTIONS ON HIS 7,800 DRUG CASES LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (AP) - The New Jersey attorney general's office has notified prosecutors that a lab technician failed to properly analyze evidence in a drug case, calling into question more than 7,800 criminal cases he's worked on over the last decade. Division of Criminal Justice director Elie Honig wrote in a memo last week that Kamal Shah was observed spending insufficient time analyzing a substance to determine if it was marijuana. In a memo dated Monday, Passaic County Deputy Public Defender Judy Fallon said Shahwas basically "observed writing 'test results' for suspected marijuana that was never tested." "Obviously, all his results have been called into question." Shah worked in the drug unit of the state police's North Regional Laboratory. He was removed from lab work in December, said Peter Aseltine, spokesman for the Office of the Attorney General. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom