Westword: For district attorneys across the state — both past and present — Yvonne “Missy” Woods is a name that keeps many of them up at night.

“The impact of her misconduct cannot be overstated,” says 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason of Woods, a disgraced DNA expert who used to work for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and was outed last year for manipulating data.

“I have had former employees of the DA’s office, former prosecutors, reach out saying, ‘Was that terrible murder case I was on impacted by this?'” Mason tells Westword. “They built relationships with families and victims’ families and thought that they had secured justice in these cases and that these cases were done, and that the victims and their families could have peace. And that is thrown into question now by these revelations from CBI.”

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