[summer]

Whatever the reason, they shouldn't detroy evidence. People are wrongly convicted sometimes, and that's terrible.

[writmeister]

I was more responding to the other poster's suggestion that prosecutors and politicians were the driving force behind the destruction of evidence.

In Texas, we have a statute that prohibits the destruction of possible DNA evidence without notification and non-objection by the defendant. We also have a statute which permits defendants to have post-conviction DNA testing and an attorney to represent them in that process.