Between March 2021 and July 2022, a DNA analyst at the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Waco Regional Crime Laboratory reported work hours that differed from the laboratory’s sign-in sheets and key card records by 279 hours. She was also
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Ted Bundy and Two New 1974 Victims
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Melissa Lucio: A Judge Said Innocent. The Court Said No.
The short answer: In February 2007, Melissa Lucio’s two-year-old daughter Mariah died in Harlingen. Lucio said Mariah had fallen down a steep outdoor staircase two days earlier. After hours of interrogation that night, she said “I guess I did it,”…
Justin Wolfe: 25 Years on the Triggerman’s Word
The short answer: In March 2001, Owen Barber shot and killed Daniel Petrole, a marijuana supplier, in Bristow, Virginia. Barber avoided a capital murder charge by testifying that his friend Justin Wolfe, then 19, had hired him, and in 2002…
Judge Peffer Suspended for Sharing an AI Deepfake
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Charles Snowden: Asleep at the Wheel and Texas DWI Law
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Judge Dugan Convicted Over a Courthouse Side Door
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Judge Clark Suspended Over Alleged False 911 Report
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The Crime Lab Was Wrong. Who Tells You?
In early 2024, a firearms supervisor at Virginia’s Western Laboratory in Roanoke took a proficiency test with four items on it. She got one wrong.
That single missed item is the reason that, as VPM News reported in October 2026,…
What the Body Camera Did Not Record
In most Texas DWI cases the body camera video is treated as the referee. The officer says one thing, the defendant remembers another, and everyone turns to the recording to settle it. Clients assume it will exonerate them. Prosecutors assume…