18 Quotes by Barry Scheck

Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the prosecutor or the defense.

There's something wrong with the system. It's time to find out whether Texas executed an innocent man.

is that it happened about three weeks ago -- prior to February 4.

The whole system has broken down. It's time to find out whether Texas has executed an innocent man.

Somebody's got to be right or wrong about this.

This is a case where the wrong man went to prison and the real person committed some awful crimes, all because of the utter incompetence of the HPD crime lab. This is the face of the crime-lab debacle. This is the human damage.

It's unusual to have a number of groups responding so quickly just for an application. I think that it reflects how troubled the legal community is by the county court's decision.

There's two cases here. Willis can't be actually innocent and Willingham couldn't be executed based on the same scientific evidence.

In so many instances, doing this DNA testing not only exonerates an innocent person but also helps identify the person who really committed the crime before that person goes out and commits more.