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Texas Ranger withheld evidence in sex abuse case, says Texas Monthly

Having just returned from Smith County on some sad business, I was pleased to discover that Texas Monthly is staying on top of an unraveling child sex-abuse case out of Mineola, most recently reporting that a Texas Ranger investigating the case allegedly withheld critical evidence. Here's how reporter Michael Hall's latest story opens ("Sex, lies, and videotape," Aug. 2009):What does a district attorney do when the chief investigator in the biggest child sex ring case in state history turns out to have been hiding important evidence? If you are Matt Bingham, district attorney of Smith County, you try to get as far away from the case as you possibly can. You call in the attorney general?s office for help. And you hunker down and hope the resulting investigation doesn?t make your office look like one that casually convicts innocent people...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 09, 2009 (boomark / email).