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"...murder of his friend Sean Hill and Hill's grandmother Edna Brau, currently has several appeals and stay requests pending..."

"...the backlog, lab workers were able to get a DNA reading from about 35% of the tested specimens –..."

"...years – during which APD has struggled with a DNA lab shutdown, an overwhelming backlog of untested rape kits,..."

"...the highest in the country for a nonprofit leader. Protesting in front of his Northwest Austin home, newly formed..."

"...violated survivors’ Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by not testing their forensic exam kits for years and not using..."

"...kits dating as far back as the 1990s. Though testing is just the first step in a long and..."

"...already large backlog ballooned to over 4,000 after APD's DNA lab shuttered in June 2016. As of April, all..."

"...Kemp, scheduled for Nov. 7, to conduct additional forensic testing. Kemp, who landed on death row in the late..."

"...appeals process – including a nine-year fight for additional DNA testing, which was ultimately denied in April – Gutierrez's..."

"...long list of issues including the use of outdated testing procedures and clear signs of contaminated evidence. Though the..."

"...view decades-cold evidence, learn the history and limitations of DNA testing, and accept as homework the review of 37..."

"...ruled against the death row inmate's request for additional DNA testing on untested items of evidence concerning the 1996..."

"...“unwarranted state intrusion,” and by not timely or accurately testing rape kits...."

"...the course of the robbery gone wrong, but forensic testing only revealed DNA evidence on one mask; it was..."

"...remaining 2,251 untested kits have been sent out for testing to contracted labs...."

"...rape kits, culminating in the department's shutdown of its DNA lab in the summer of 2016. The lab was..."

"...Melissa Trotter. Except Larry Swearingen had been convicted of kidnapping, raping, and strangling Trotter in 2000, and by then..."

"...any effort to reopen the Police Department's now-infamously inept DNA lab. At the time, it seemed the only direction..."

"...Cardenas, a Mexican national convicted of capital murder for kidnapping, raping, and killing his 16-year-old cousin in McAllen, is..."

"...Escobar’s conviction relied heavily on DNA evidence from the Austin Police Department’s now-shuttered forensics lab,..."

"...this week and charged with felony sexual assault after DNA testing linked both men to separate crime reports –..."

"...Already: Item 17 is a consulting contract on forensic DNA research with the University of Pennsylvania, which will be..."

"...crime lab, there wasn't a CODIS hit on his DNA until 2003, after a sample of one of his..."

"...a 10-year prison sentence for the in-custody rape and kidnapping of a woman while he was an officer with..."

"...detected inside the 520 rape kits sent out for testing since the Austin Police Department discovered a mold-like substance..."

"...all. A week after announcing a fee implementation for DNA testing and alcohol, toxicology, and controlled substances analysis, DPS..."

"...$150 for toxicology), controlled substances ($75-150 per sample), and DNA testing ($550 per case)...."

"...full year after the Austin Police Department shuttered its DNA lab due to out-of-date procedures and unqualified analysts, department..."

"...full year after the Austin Police Department shuttered its DNA lab due to out-of-date procedures and unqualified analysts, department..."

"...That’s not the first time that such a discrepancy..."