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Washington State Patrol's toxicology lab ran tests in office contaminated by meth, possibly jeopardizing thousands of cases [The Seattle Times]

Jul 27, 2021 View Original Article
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    50% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    52% Medium Conservative

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : They detected traces of THC, the chemical intoxicant in marijuana, and methamphetamine.
46% : Paterson's car reeked of marijuana, and the trooper later wrote Paterson "admitted that he had shared a 'bowl'" with his girlfriend.
44% : Paterson said he never used meth, adding only his girlfriend had smoked marijuana in the car that night despite what the trooper's report said.
33% : "I would've guessed marijuana was in my system, but the whole meth thing, I was really mad about it," Paterson, 30, said in a recent interview

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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