TBI logo tileA former Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent fired last year for mishandling a blood alcohol sample only botched results one time out of the couple thousand samples he tested, the state agency said.
“We have not had any evidence of any other switched samples or anything to cause concern,” said Josh DeVine, TBI spokesman.
The state’s law enforcement agency recently received the last batch of results from all of the drug and blood cases that former Special Agent Kyle Bayer had tested.
TBI sent all of those samples — which included 323 cases in Hamilton County — to AIT Laboratories, a private lab in Indianapolis, Ind., for re-testing to ensure there were no wrongful convictions.
Re-testing the 2,827 samples cost the state $98,945, DeVine said.