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Rick Casey, the Houston Chronicle award-winning columnist, writes, "Dog?s nose fallible as a crime lab."DNA has shown conclusively that people are unreliable. Eyewitness identification is often misidentification. Hair matches? Too often they match too many heads. Even fingerprints are not for sure, as the FBI learned when it falsely accused a Portland lawyer of being involved in a Madrid terrorist bombing that killed 191 and injured 2,000. The FBI issued a rare apology for jailing the man for two weeks. Now two federal lawsuits involving a Fort Bend County deputy and his dogs say that bloodhounds may be man?s best friends, but they are not infallible detectives. Back in February, Calvin Miller, a self-employed mechanic and laborer, was called into the Yoakum Police Department for questioning...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).