HPD's crime lab scandal

• 12/12/07 - HPD lab analyst indicted on theft, tampering charges

• 10/12/07 - PANEL WILL REVIEW 180 HPD CRIME LAB CASES

• 8/31/07 - Lawyers want lab cases reviewed by judge

• 8/21/07 - Outside review of HPD lab cases debated

• 8/10/07 -Unsecured evidence / Employee suspension reminds Houstonians of crime lab's vulnerability to personnel problems

• 6/14/07 - HPD chief rejects proposal for crime lab overseer . . . "This is an extraordinarily high and extremely disturbing proportion of cases in which to find problems of this magnitude," the report says . . .

• 7/1/05 - PROBE FINDS HPD LAB GOT SCANT BACKING

• 6/14/05 - HPD crime lab analyst quits amid pressure

• 6/1/05 - Crime lab faked results in 4 cases, probe finds

• 6/1/05 - HPD admits it failed to review suspect lab work - (Investigator) Bromwich described drylabbing as "the most egregious form of scientific misconduct that can occur in a forensic laboratory."