10,000 Cases Of Evidence May Have Been Destroyed

(Houston, TX) — Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg is telling lawyers that stored evidence in ten-thousand criminal cases may have been destroyed.

Most of Ogg’s emailed notifications this week went to defense lawyers for more than 77-hundred defendants, causing an uproar among them. An investigation last year revealed that a deputy cleaning out the property room destroyed more than 20-thousand pieces of evidence.

As a result, Devon Anderson, the district attorney at the time, dismissed nearly 150 pending criminal cases.

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