Hi Jim,

I wasn't aware of such gross corruption in our Texas judicial system. The criminal justice system seems to be broken and need to be fixed. Also, we probably needed stronger audit control within the system.

I once conducted an operational audit of the city of Dallas police property evidence system and made many recommendation for improvement. An FBI agent that was assigned to me as a special consultant and added in the planning and execution of the audit plan. The integrity of all evidence is dependent on a chain of custody where each party that take position of the evidence must sign a sheet for it, so there is a clear trial from the point of origin, right up to the point where the evidence is presented to a jury.

Evidentially, the Houston corruption was possible because the system was overridden. There should be some way to identify who falsified the evidence. I'm sure there is also a lot of mistakes or deliberate falsification when drugs are removed from the property room and taken to a lab for testing and identification.

LelandJ