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June 10, 2011 News Feature
Do Unto Others Y Otros
Texas execution flouts international law
"...was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1994 kidnapping, rape, and murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda in Bexar..."
June 10, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Is Texas Breaking the Law?
State poised to execute another Mexican national
"...was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1994 kidnap, rape and murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda in Bexar..."
June 8, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith
Headlines
"...to evidence so that it can be subjected to DNA testing. For more, see austinchronicle.com/newsdesk...."
March 11, 2011 News Feature
State Supremes Side With Exoneree
Exoneree entitled to full compensation
"...a life sentence for aggravated sexual assault. In 2006, DNA testing proved Smith's innocence, and he subsequently filed for..."
March 11, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
This Way to the Big Top!
From budget disaster to hysterical bloodletting, the legislative circus is back in town
"...43 men in Texas have been exonerated via post-conviction DNA testing, and in the majority of those wrongful convictions,..."
Jan. 14, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
"...rape and murder of his girlfriend, Beverly Ann Jones. DNA testing sought by the Dallas County District Attorney's Office..."
Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature
'If We're Back Anyway ...'
Lawmakers start wondering how much of the special session agenda is a blank slate
"...identification reforms in SB 117; Improved access to post-conviction DNA testing in SB 1864; Habeas Corpus writ reforms in..."
June 17, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Street Light Suzie
Metallic Tracks
"...DNA testing will prove Shooter Jennings the hard rock to..."
May 29, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Executions Maintain Steady Clip
When it comes to the death penalty, Texas throws caution to the wind
"...One inmate, Michael Blair, was exonerated after DNA testing failed to connect him to the rape-murder of..."
Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Capital Convictions Decline in 2008
Capital convictions are down, but the death machine is still busy
"...prison. And one inmate, Michael Blair, was exonerated, after DNA testing failed to connect him to the rape-murder of..."
Dec. 10, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith
Polygamist Raid Prompted by False Report?
Arrest made in investigation of the phone call that started it all
"...the state custody of all 416 children and ordered DNA testing on all, to resolve questions of parentage...."
April 25, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Cross-Border Craziness
Feds finally release guidelines for new visas, civil rights lawyers file more claims pertaining to May 1 immigration protest in L.A., and Cuero rancher finds possible chupacabra
"...saved the head of the one she found" for DNA testing and mounting, reports the Associated Press, also noting..."
Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
No Fake Rock Here!
What are Austin's legislators doing to keep music authentic (in a legally binding way)?
"...way through the Senate? Children's Health Insurance Program funding? DNA testing for everyone on death row? No! It's fake..."
April 30, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Capitol Briefs
"...nationwide 198 people have been exonerated based on post-conviction DNA testing, including 29 in Texas. Ellis noted that 38%..."
April 27, 2007 News Column
Oppel's Memory Hole
Statesman editor Rich Oppel blasts Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, but may not have checked his facts.
"...Oppel singles out as important to Central Texas -- DNA testing, school dropout prevention, scholarships, water quality, elder abuse,..."
Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
Naked City
Austin Stories
"...George W. Bush, went unanswered until last year. Subsequent DNA testing exonerated Ochoa and Danziger and implicated Marino in..."
Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...my position on capital punishment some time ago, when DNA testing was exonerating some persons on death row, and..."
July 5, 2002 Column
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...my position on capital punishment some time ago, when DNA testing was exonerating some persons on death row; and..."
June 28, 2002 Column
No More Polancos
The DA's office decides not to pursue the death penalty for Nancy DePriest's murder, but questions linger over police handling of the case.
"...The letters were mostly ignored until last year, when DNA testing proved that Marino was DePriest's sole assailant. Ochoa..."
Dec. 21, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Lines in the Sand
Austin Legislators Prepare to Redraw Their Own Districts -- While Doing Business as Usual
"...has also filed a bill to provide for immediate DNA testing of individuals convicted of sexual assault. "If the..."
Jan. 19, 2001 News Feature by Louis Dubose
Murder, Mayhem, and the Underbelly of Life
Friends in Low Places
"...tracts are given over to the procedural minutiae of DNA testing and evidentiary matters. Spencer constructed a collage of..."
Oct. 30, 1998 Books Feature
Mi Amigo Loco
TV Eye
"...hours of viewing and entertainment on subjects ranging from DNA testing in law enforcement to Genghis Khan's childhood. I..."
May 2, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser
Please Kill Me
and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996
"...had created a body of work that would require DNA testing to figure out exactly who did what...."
Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature
The Never-Ending (Crime) Story
Although their case has hit a dead end, prosecutors of the yogurt shop murders say they're determined to find the 'unknown suspect' – and then to retry Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen
"...The discovery last spring of male DNA in the body of one of the victims, Amy..."
July 17, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Scene of the Crime
Revisiting the yogurt shop murders: A cold case reconsideration of the 1991 crime points away from the prosecution's assumptions and conclusions
"...for explosive new evidence discovered in 2008: unknown male DNA found on a vaginal swab collected at the 1991..."
Dec. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Crime Lab Cover-Up?
APD admits to long-running wrongdoings with its evidence
"...string of issues with the way APD was conducting DNA analysis – methods that may have affected a number..."
Sept. 23, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
What Happens to Rape Victims?
Sixteen months and nothing
"...is part of the growing backlog originally slated for testing at the Austin Police Department's DNA lab that has..."
Dec. 2, 2016 News Feature by Kathryn Lundstrom
Judge Dismisses Yogurt Shop Charges
Lynch grants state's request UPDATE: Travis Co. DA responds
"...dismissal of all charges pending further investigation to find DNA donor. Say they see no other option but to..."
Oct. 28, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature
Understanding the Science
"...encoded into single and distinct genes, certain segments of DNA with specific instructions for specific protein production. In front..."
