'Where's your evidence?'

The Austin Chronicle's Jordan Smith has a crackerjack, must-read story with the same title as this post on problems at police evidence rooms across the state and the implications for both the guilty and the innocent. So much good stuff there I won't bother excerpting, just go read the whole thing.

See related Grits posts:

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• Dallas DNA exonerations expose evidence retention flaws
• Senate bills encourage retention, testing of old DNA evidence
• 'The DNA's over there ... right next to the jelly': Problems with evidence preservation in Texas
• Using DNA in nonviolent offenses would swamp crime labs, evidence rooms
• 'Missing evidence among military crime labs new problems'
• Big D: Shopping Mecca
• Sex toys, guns walk away from Houston evidence room
• Nueces County cleaning up evidence room mess; how many others are just as bad?
• Police evidence rooms are 'red-headed stepchildren' of law enforcement, Integrity Unit told
• Galveston, Brazoria Counties react wisely by dismissing cases after evidence thefts
• Evidence retention failures thwart pursuit of innocence claims
• Enough weapons missing from Houston's property room for a 21-gun salute
• 500 guns missing from TX police evidence room in 'illegal firearms trafficking scheme'