Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast comments on the results of a recent investigation into the Houston crime lab.  “Forensic labs should be more like referees than team players,” Henson says, “neutral arbiters on which both sides can rely – but that’s not how things operate in the real world.”

According to researcher William Thompson, the errors at the Houston lab almost always favored law enforcement and the prosecution.  “It’s like team spirit. They see the defense counsel as their enemy and tend to be kind of secretive and not want to disclose things outside of the family.”