ASCLD/LABcrime laboratory managementISO standard quality issuesregulationsreform billTexas crime laboratoriesIn 2003, Texas became the first state to require crime laboratory accreditation by law. Since then, several other states have instituted similar laws, including Oklahoma, Missouri, and New York. ...
Our Lab Director, Neil Broom, has been appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court Panel of Expert Witnesses for Computer Forensics. Mr. Broom has been qualified as an Expert Witness multiple times in state and federal courts, in civil as well as criminal cases. Neil is also the co-author...
When state leaders took over Houston Independent School District, they wanted a superintendent who could withstand criticism. The man they hired has provoked it. ByAndrea White Business| July 18, 2024 Inside the Texas Crime Lab That’s Cracked Hundreds of Cold Cases ...
The prices of Wagyu burgers range across the state, but they’re still the most accessible way to taste the well-marbled, often-expensive beef. By Daniel Vaughn 2:38 Texas Country Reporter| March 21, 2023 Two Texas Parents Became the Change They Wanted to See in Their Kid’s YouTube...
An ingenious Texan’s invention may soon bring extensive mining of the metal—vital for our increasingly battery-powered future—to the northeast corner of the state. By Russell Gold Business| September 9, 2024 The Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Car John Hennessey’s family-run shop...
Austin’s mayor, Steve Adler, and the state’s junior senator, Ted Cruz, are the latest Texas politicians to take ill-considered vacations. By Dan Solomon February 18, 2021 Photo illustration: Texas Monthly; Cruz: Chip Somodevilla/Getty; trunks: nickp37/Getty; background: Jacobs Stock/...
The attorney should ascertain the condition of the tube used, because an improperly capped or filled tube may result in an incorrect BAC value. If the hospital (or police) sends blood to an outside private lab or the state crime laboratory for testing, counsel s...
They also explained the absence of evidence of "battery" or any other abuse and that the State's crime theory is untethered to science—and not to even to the trial record. The lead detective, Brian Wharton, explained how Mr. Roberson's case involved a rush to judgment bas...
Today, law enforcement organizations and the legal system are facing a crucial moment in the history of forensic science. The Mayfield fiasco, coming on the heels of mistakes at state crime labs all over the country (most notoriously in Texas, where the Houston Police Department crime lab was ...
The criminologist says that the state crime lab has become merely an office that signs death certificates. In the case of the eight girls’ bodies discovered in 2001, Maynez told the El Paso Times,“We were asked to plant evidence against two bus drivers who were charged with the murders....