Lee Brown testifies he tried to fix crime lab
By MARY FLOOD HOUSTON CHRONICLE
June 17, 2009, 6:54PM
Lee P. Brown testified Wednesday that crime lab mistakes made during his tenure as Houston police chief weren’t his fault and that he worked hard to get the lab the resources it needed.
Brown appeared before a jury that’s been asked to decide whether the city owes any money to George Rodriguez, who spent 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl. A crime lab employee falsely testified during Rodriguez’s criminal trial that blood evidence linked him to the attack.
Brown, who is also a former Houston mayor, said that as police chief he fought to fix the only crime lab problem he knew about — understaffing.
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