A Looming Exoneration in Houston
A man in prison 22 years after being convicted of a rape and robbery looks to be innocent and will soon be released in the latest case of a probable wrongful conviction due to mistakes in the Houston crime lab: A jury convicted Gary Alvin Richard in a 1987 attack on a nursing student in a trial based largely on blood-typing evidence from the Houston Police Department crime lab. But, prosecutors and the defense attorney agree, new tests completed Friday show that an HPD analyst misled juror

