The effects of what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals calls 'false testimony' from a DNA analyst grew exponentially overnight.
HOUSTON, Texas -- The effects of what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals calls"false testimony" from a DNA analyst grew exponentially overnight, creating a staggering workload for already overburdened labs.
The problem stems from a decade-old case in which Stephen Adam Vinson, who used to work at the Texas Department of Public Safety's DNA lab, testified about the condition in which DNA samples are stored in a particular case. "This is the nature for a lot of things in forensics. Because of the long backlogs across the entire system, it can take years before you find where an issue is," Stout said."The original analysis of that was in 2013, the testimony wasn't until 2017, decision wasn't until 2022. So while the original issues started with this back in 2013, we really had no way of knowing about this until 2022.
But lawyers and defendants are the ones who will get to question that and possibly ask for the DNA evidence in their cases to be retested. The Houston lab's policy doesn't allow analysts to use all of its DNA evidence in the first round of testing, so if items do need to be retested, that aspect of it won't be an issue.
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