Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Houston crime lab earned the title of worst crime lab in America in the early 2000s after four men were wrongfully convicted because of failures and misconduct in the lab, said Peter Stout ...
According to CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, the Houston Police Department and other agencies have permission from the DA's office to destroy any drug evidence from cleared cases before 2015.
In Tennessee, a rape kit often takes 33 to 49 weeks to analyse at the state’s crime lab in Jackson. In Louisiana, homicide cases sometimes take as long as two years to return DNA samples.
Independent investigation led by Michael R. Bromwich begins probe of crime lab and property room. HPD receives accreditation from a national organization for all areas of its crime lab except the DNA-testing division. Four intersections in Downtown Houston were used as testbeds for red light camera equipment.
In 2012 the Texas Department of Public Safety found out that an analyst at the Houston crime lab, Jonathan Salvador, had intentionally falsified lab results, calling into question the validity of nearly 5,000 drug cases. Four hundred of those cases were in Harris Country where Keel was serving as a State District Judge.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in the Texas Medical Center serves as the Harris County Medical Examiner and Crime Laboratory.. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences is a science-based, independent operation consisting of two distinct forensic services for the Harris County community – the Medical Examiner Service and the Crime Laboratory Service.
On Sept. 3, the crime lab announced that it had suspended toolmark analysis, acknowledging that it had found that the examination in "a single case" had not conformed to standards. The state was ...
Joyce Gilchrist (January 11, 1948 – June 14, 2015) [1] was an American forensic chemist who was accused of falsifying evidence in order to help prosecutors in Oklahoma.She participated in more than 3,000 criminal cases in 21 years while working for the Oklahoma City Police Department.