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Velazquez, Brenda. "Legal Perspectives on the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 13, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p200581_index.html>

Velazquez, B. , 2007-11-13 "Legal Perspectives on the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p200581_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In 2003 major problems came to light concerning the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory (HPDCL). Subsequent investigations (Bromwich, 2006) have revealed that the lab was conducting substandard work for more than a decade. Poor scientific work resulted in the false conviction of at least two men and has cast doubt on the scientific testimony presented in hundreds of criminal cases. These problems were brought to light via journalistic investigations, and not by the legal system itself. The purpose of this study is to explore the viewpoints of practicing criminal lawyers in Houston regarding the scandal. I’m interested in learning what they knew and when they knew it regarding poor work in the lab. I’m also interested in their views regarding why the scandal occurred and why the laboratory problems took so long to surface. The legal process is intended to catch errors and problems in the evidence presented in criminal cases. My goal is to discover why the obvious problems in Houston were not uncovered sooner and what steps might be taken to improve the ability of the legal process to detect problems in scientific evidence.

The Political Economy of Mexico-United States Migration: Migration and Electoral Competition at the Sub-National Level (A View from the Source Country)

The New "Peculiar Institution": International Labor Standards, Human Rights, and Prison Labor in the Contemporary United States

The New "Peculiar Institution": International Labor Standards, Human Rights, and Prison Labor in the Contemporary United States