That's where I saw it too! Pretty scary. I imagine it must be ocurring at other labs also...

>Yea, it's Houston (I watched 60 Minutes II last night).
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>cheers
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>>Unless the crime occurred in Houston, TX (I believe that is the location, my apoligies to Texans if I am wrong) where there were so many errors and gross negligence and even possibly intentional manufacturing of evidence in the police DNA lab there. Many convicted criminals via DNA evidence (which we generally assume to be infallible--or at least a jury assumes so) were later released by the Governor pending retrial because it was proven that the police lab gave false 'positive' results on DNA matches at crime scenes. Now THAT is a really SCARY thought... So much for DNA testing...
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>>>Leland,
>>>
>>>We don't have capital punishment here, though it is still possible in the case of murder of a police officer on duty I *think*.
>>>And it's a good thing we don't because at least 5 people previously convicted were later found (at least 1 20+ years after trial) to be innocent.
>>>
>>>But this is a highly emotional issue for people related to victims. I well remember a comment by a victim's relative after the Governor of Illinois commuted many death sentences and pardoned a few people. The pardons were clearly because there was (in the Governor's opinion) clear evidence now that the pardonees had been innocent. Yet the family member of a victim said (of a pardoned individual), quit angrily, along the lines of 'well if the system had dispatched him quickly as it should we wouldn't be going through this crap today'.
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>>>Personally I wouldn't mind the death penalty for criminals who are unequivocally (by both confession and positive non-circumstantial PROOF) (found) guilty and all aspects of the trial had been reviewed in detail for correctness in every aspect.
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>>In the US there were 77 executions. So far as the Americas were concerned, I didn't see where many other countries had any executions. I had previously thought that capital punishment was pretty universal. I wish the US would abolish Capital Punishment.
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>>>>Regards,
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>>>>LelandJ