Comments on: 500+ Guns Missing From Texas Police Dept Evidence Room – FBI, Texas Rangers Investigating http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/500-guns-missing-from-texas-police-dept-evidence-room-fbi-texas-rangers-investigating Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Ernesto Strate http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/500-guns-missing-from-texas-police-dept-evidence-room-fbi-texas-rangers-investigating/comment-page-1#comment-27363 Ernesto Strate Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:52:14 +0000 http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/?p=439#comment-27363 okay so I spent the last 10 mins looking for the same theme you're using and cannot find it. Didn't want to have to ask but really would like to use it for my site, could you let me know? I'll look back here soon for any replies. Thanks okay so I spent the last 10 mins looking for the same theme you’re using and cannot find it. Didn’t want to have to ask but really would like to use it for my site, could you let me know? I’ll look back here soon for any replies. Thanks

]]> By: Candace http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/500-guns-missing-from-texas-police-dept-evidence-room-fbi-texas-rangers-investigating/comment-page-1#comment-2119 Candace Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:21:31 +0000 http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/?p=439#comment-2119 Thank you for posting this. Evidence management is often looked at as an after thought. In reality it is a science. It has legal ramifications as serious as those of fingerprint or DNA analysis. Few agencies are paying the proper attention to this subject. Evidence management is an easy place to win or loose a case at trial. It can make or break the image of a department in the eyes of your potential jury pool; the local voting citizenry. Organizations such as TAPEIT exist in this state and are currently under utilized. With the trend in laws that require ever increasing storage times and more sophesticated record keeping it is time to end the practice of turning the janitors closet into an evidence locker and running things however you feel like it. At the very least our legal system's integrity requires that everyone be on the same page. Isn't it time for uniform statewide guidelines? Thank you for posting this. Evidence management is often looked at as an after thought. In reality it is a science. It has legal ramifications as serious as those of fingerprint or DNA analysis. Few agencies are paying the proper attention to this subject.

Evidence management is an easy place to win or loose a case at trial. It can make or break the image of a department in the eyes of your potential jury pool; the local voting citizenry. Organizations such as TAPEIT exist in this state and are currently under utilized. With the trend in laws that require ever increasing storage times and more sophesticated record keeping it is time to end the practice of turning the janitors closet into an evidence locker and running things however you feel like it. At the very least our legal system’s integrity requires that everyone be on the same page. Isn’t it time for uniform statewide guidelines?

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