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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; forensic evidence</title>
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		<title>MORE EVIDENCE OF BAD EVIDENCE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/12/08/more-evidence-of-bad-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Criminal Defense Attorneys Must Request and Analyze Procedures for Testing, Accepted Protocols and Handling of Forensic Evidence

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John T. Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

A criminal defense attorney’s worst nightmare is that the prosecution will rely upon bad evidence to convict his/her client. Defending against relevant, admissible evidence is difficult enough, but there is no real defense against shoddy law enforcement’s collection, processing, and storage of the evidence the prosecution will rely upon in criminal cases. The Houston City Police Department (“HPD”) has a long, sordid history of destroying, botching, and even manufacturing false evidence in criminal cases. The HPD crime lab had to be shut down by the Mayor’s Office in 2002 in the wake of disclosures that lab analysts had mishandled DNA evidence, destroyed evidence, and misrepresented evidence in criminal trials. The fallout from the crime lab scandal still reverberates in our criminal justice system with the exoneration of at least six individuals.]]></description>
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		<title>THE MAGIC DNA BULLET LOSES SOME OF ITS LUSTER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabricating Fake DNA, Defending the Accused in the New World

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Billy Sinclair, Paralegal

We have blogged on several occasions in the recent past about the fallibility of forensic evidence, sharing the opinion of others that more often than not it’s “junk science.” However, DNA evidence has generally remained insulated from the ever increasing scientific indictment of forensic evidence in general. Not any more. The New York Times recently reported (August 18, 2009) about a paper published online by the journal Forensic Science Internal: Genetics. Citing this authoritative paper, the Times reported that scientists in Israel have established that it is now possible to fabricate DNA evidence, “undermining the credibility of what has been the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.”]]></description>
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