Occupy Cleared of Link to Murder; Lab error responsible

The right has been striving to smear and vilify the Occupy movement since it's origins last September.

This is one more example where something that initially or superficially appeared to pont an accusatory finger at the 99% failed to make that accusation stick.  Not that it helps the people who are ideologically driven to ignore the facts, a problem more often encountered on the right, than in the middle or left.  Maybe it is just my imagination, but I think I hear the gnashing of disappointed right wing teeth....

From the STrib and AP:

Official: DNA match in unsolved NY killing came from lab worker who also worked on Occupy case

• Article by: COLLEEN LONG , Associated Press
• Updated: July 11, 2012 - 7:43pm

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NEW YORK - A puzzling DNA match that appeared to link the 2004 killing of a New York City drama student and evidence collected this year from a protest affiliated with Occupy Wall Street was instead the result of a lab worker who handled both cases, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.

A database of DNA samples recently matched DNA on a metal chain collected after the protest this spring to material on a CD player found eight years ago near Sarah Fox's body. But during the process of excluding people who may have handled evidence, it was determined the DNA came from a lab worker who dealt with both cases, said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. It was not clear if the mistake was the result of contaminated evidence.