An infestation of "drug-addicted rats" in evidence rooms will prompt the Houston Police Department to begin destroying hundreds of thousands of pounds of unneeded narcotics evidence, officials said.
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A.J. Armstrong, the Houston man convicted of killing his parents when he was a teenager in 2016, is asking for a hearing to be held to determine whether his capital murder conviction was influenced by a former DNA analyst who did faulty work.
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A new trial ultimately is being sought for Armstrong, 24, who was found guilty of killing his parents in 2016 and sentenced to life in prison. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office informed Armstrong last month that his case “may be associated” with a forensic analyst who was terminated for faulty work.
During the Houston Police Department's internal investigation of suspended police incident reports, nearly 100 sexual assault cases were found to be connected to other police cases, Police Chief Troy Finner said Monday.
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Of the 4,017 adult sex crime incident reports that had been suspended, the forensic science center reported 1,147 had associated sexual assault kits that were tested for DNA. 76 of those kits found DNA links to other cases, Finner said.
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