Further Fallout from the Houston Crime Lab Scandal

The news that Houston Police Department has a DNA back­log is not sur­pris­ing at all. In fact it should be expected, con­sid­er­ing it was closed down for a sig­nif­i­cant period of time.

Seven years after the Houston Police Department crime lab scan­dal first broke, city offi­cials acknowl­edged this week that nearly 4,000 rape kits and other crime

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Child Molester Possibly Freed Due to Lab Screw-Up

This is the prob­lem with sit­u­a­tions where labs screw things up, like con­sum­ing all the evi­dence avail­able for analysis.

It must have been a hard call for the Judge. No one wants to see a child rapist poten­tially set free, but in this coun­try every­one is sup­posed to have their rights protected.

“This is what we had

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