I do not know for certain but it defies imagination that the State Lab could find none of this other DNA stuff. Moreover, if in fact the State Lab could not find it, then it seems to me that any crimes where the finding or not finding of DNA at a crime scene played a significant role in a prosecution would have grounds to appeal based on the lack of competence of the State Lab. This is a Catch-22 situation. This crime could make LE in (and the tax payers of) North Carolina wish that Nifong had never been born.
"This crime could make LE in (and the tax payers of) North Carolina wish that Nifong had never been born."
That train, in my humble opinion, has already left the station.
Well, as I understand it, SBI did one kind of test that didn't get a match so Nifong had the samples sent to the private lab to have another kind of test performed.
Another thing - Nifong may have thought he would have more ability to control the presentation of the test results through a private lab trying to get government business than he would with the state lab so he may have asked for very limited testing from SBI and then, when he learned the results, whisked the samples away to the private lab.