Lynn Robitaille Garcia is leading the charge for Texas to be at the forefront of a complicated controversy over how crime labs analyze and interpret DNA samples that include genetic material of multiple people.
In the adversarial criminal justice community, where prosecutors and criminal-defense lawyers fight daily in court, Garcia—as general counsel of the Texas Forensic Science Commission—takes a wholesale different approach to solving forensic science dilemmas over things like mixed DNA, bite mark evidence or hair microscopy.
