Rocha Case: New Drug Evidence Raises Questions About County Lab

First test showed no drugs in suspect; second contradicted

"...Rocha case, but also about the general reliability of evidence coming from the ME's office. "The Medical Examiner's office..."

July 22, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Court Rejects New Evidence in Rodney Reed Death Penalty Case

Reed has long claimed innocence

"...Jimmy Fennell, after Fennell discovered the affair. Prosecutors presented evidence that Reed and Fennell had not known one another..."

June 30, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Ken Paxton Impeachment Trial to Include Evidence, Witnesses

Hearsay excuse won’t fly, thanks to Senate-adopted rules

"...oath and cross-examined, and rules for the admission of evidence. The trial will be open to the public and..."

June 22, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Crime Lab: Evidence of Improvement?

Audits on active forensic labs expected to begin before July's end

"...plans to continue efforts to clear the backlog of evidence, the bulk of which includes untested rape kits...."

July 21, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Beside the Point: Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Ignorance

As we become submerged in factless policy-making, a request to return to reason

"...eight clinics in the state. When presented with scientific evidence, statistics, peer-reviewed research papers, testimony from relevant, qualified physicians,..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Hair Analysis: The Root of the Evidence Problem

Texas takes on first-in-the-nation statewide case review

"...hair comparison analysis linking a defendant to crime scene evidence was provided by Federal Bureau of Investigation examiners. That..."

Jan. 13, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: Shocking Evidence of a Thoroughly Racist Trial

Of course the state still wants to kill this prisoner

"...in Ama­rillo in 1998, have uncovered powerful, previously unheard evidence of racism at his trial. That trial judge placed..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Evidence of Things Not Seen

Lindsey Lane's new novel about a missing boy and the lives he touches: an excerpt

"...conquers a new arena: the Young Adult novel, with Evidence of Things Not Seen. This multitalented author will read..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Feature by Lindsey Lane

Death Watch: Execution Delayed for Evidence Review

Questions about ballistics in Houston drug house murders

"...to a newly-filed appeal challenging the science underpinning ballistics evidence presented at his 1993 trial...."

Oct. 25, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

City Hall Hustle: Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence

The e-mail daisy chain grows longer ... and longer ...

"...– according to YNN – on its face that's evidence of criminal intent. (Arrrgh! Too late!)..."

March 25, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

For 9/11, There Is Visual and Scientific Evidence

"...engineers demanding a new 9/11 investigation based upon scientific evidence that the three World Trade Center towers could only..."

June 7, 2010 Postmarks

No Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design

"...Dear Editor, Since there is no scientific evidence for intelligent design/creationism, the only source for this wacky..."

April 30, 2008 Postmarks

Evidence That Stinks

Innocence Project says Texas' scent lineup evidence is stinky junk

"...lineup requested by two Houston PD detectives. "The scent evidence was ludicrous and incriminated a person who was unrelated..."

Sept. 22, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Available Evidence

"...Below are some of the items of evidence that grand jurors considered in deciding whether to indict..."

Aug. 14, 2009 News Feature

After UFO Whistleblower Testimony, UT Prof Says: Let’s See Some Evidence

He’d be “the happiest astronomer on Earth if [this were] real”

Aug. 4, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Court Rejects New Evidence in Rodney Reed Death Penalty Case

Reed has long claimed innocence

July 7, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Where’s Your Evidence?

Exculpatory testimony, DNA at issue in two landmark cases

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

State Offers No Evidence of Health Benefit During Fetal Burial Rule Hearing

Austin abortion provider calls rule “cruel” to patients

Jan. 4, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Evidence for the Prosecution of Rock

Austin’s Graffiti Trials releases a garage-flavored chunk of awesome

Oct. 12, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Musical Triumphs, Plus Evidence That Austin Is Innovating the Classical World

Chronicle Arts writer Michael Kellerman recalls 2008, in classical music

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

TYC Shows Little Evidence of 'Reform' at State Schools

Five months after the Texas Youth Commission reform bill was crafted to protect youth inmates, TYC is massively understaffed, with a third of all posts empty

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Evidence Buried?

Checkered Past

Aug. 27, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Science of Injustice

Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence

"...body in the national forest. There was no direct evidence – no DNA, for example – linking Swear­ingen to..."

Aug. 19, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Life in Prison for Hemp

José Peña brought some roadside weeds home from Kansas. Cops decided it was reefer, and a Texas court sentenced him to life in prison – without the evidence. It took a decade for Peña to get back some of the pieces of his life.

"...taken for testing, completely destroyed all of the case evidence – all 23.46 pounds of plant material – and..."

March 16, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Yogurt Shop Murder

New evidence could hobble state's murder case

"...yogurt shop defendant Robert Springsteen says that retested DNA evidence proves his client is not guilty and should be..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Crackpot Crackdown

Joining a long East Texas tradition, Jackson County DA Bobby Bell has convicted 28 black people on drug charges via manufactured evidence and railroaded trials. One small-town exile, her family, and a few neighbors are finally fighting back.

"...help Rick Patterson at all. Instead, on virtually no evidence, and that circumstantial, a jury of nine whites and..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Breaking the Chain

Troubling questions persist in the Rodney Reed / Stacey Stites murder case.

"...into Stites' murder mishandled, but that much of the evidence obtained by investigators was tainted by serious breaches in..."

March 1, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Future of Austin’s Crime Lab

The backlog of DNA evidence is moving, but is it shrinking?

"...city and county collectively have struggled to process DNA evidence in criminal cases, creating substantial holdups for district prosecutors,..."

Dec. 2, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Does DNA Testing Prove Skinner's Guilt?

That depends on whom you ask

"...the state of Texas actually safeguarded and properly preserved evidence collected as part of the investigation into the 1993..."

Feb. 6, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Annals of Law and Order

Court of Criminal Appeals expands use of "circumstantial evidence"

"...in each case: no body, no weapon, no physical evidence of murder – only circumstantial evidence to suggest that..."

July 13, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

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