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A typical day

Nothing like television. You are in a lab, working through a case queue, one exhibit at a time, under a chain of custody log that never stops. You prepare samples, run instruments, interpret the output, and write a report that a defence lawyer will attack line by line. Peer review takes a chunk of every week. A few times a year you spend a day in a courtroom explaining, slowly and plainly, what your result does and does not prove.