Showing posts with label HPD Crime Lab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HPD Crime Lab. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Stop me if you've heard this before...

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It seems that no matter how hard it tries, the Houston Police Department Crime Lab just can't keep itself out of the news. Peter Lentz w...
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Monday, April 7, 2014

More problems for the HPD Crime Lab

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Could the news be any better for the Houston Police Department Crime Lab? After having its DNA lab shut down due to faulty storage and testi...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Mayor wants to build new crime lab

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Harris County already has a crime lab. It's called the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences . It was created out of the old medi...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Runaway grand jury closes up shop

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Yesterday the grand jury investigating the Harris County District Attorney's Office announced that it was not issuing any indictments . ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Grand jury subpoenas top county officials in DWI probe

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Remember that "runaway" grand jury investigating the HPD BATmobiles ? Well, they're baaack... The county judge and two commi...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The plot thickens

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It would appear that the shit has hit the fan over at 1201 Franklin. Today, State District Judge Susan Brown appointed former prosecutors ...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Runaway jury

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The original purpose of the grand jury was to have a body that could review a case to determine if there was enough evidence to proceed. The...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Ask not for whom the whistle blows

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For the past two decades the breath alcohol testing program in Harris County was run by Lone Star College (formerly North Harris Montgomery ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The wreckage of the batmobile

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I've written at length about the problems with the Houston Police Department's BATmobiles and I've written about the departure ...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

And then there were none

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First it was Jano Chu who left back in the fall of 2010. Then it was Jorge Wong's turn to go in March. And now Amanda Culbertson is ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

City to spend $3 million to study police fingerprint unit

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Updating a post from earlier this month about problems with the Houston Police Department's fingerprint unit , Houston City Council has...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

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There are some things you just can't make up. In Houston today, a fire broke out in the HPD Crime Lab . Speculation is the "product...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Same song, different verse

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Stop me if this sounds all-to familiar... a man, after spending decades in prison, based on forensic evidence examined and evaluated by the ...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Giving credit where credit is due

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Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos blasted the Houston Police Department and her predecessor for their roles in the wrongful convict...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Forensic "science" under fire

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According to the New York Times , a report to be issued this month by the National Academy of Sciences will be a "sweeping critique...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Is the State of Texas guilty of murder?

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In 2004, Cameron Willingham , a Corsicana auto mechanic convicted of setting the fire that killed his 1-year-old twins and 2-year-old stepd...