Judge to serve 28 years after making $2 million sending children to jail(rollingout.com)

   Worse yet, the lab Salvador worked for knew he was doing a bad job for 
   years. A DPS investigative commission found that Salvador was asked to 
   correct mistakes in about a third of all the tests he ran. Periodic job 
   evaluations noted that Salvador struggled with an overall understanding of 
   chemistry and that his problems were very systemic and his work right on the 
   edge of tolerable, though not catastrophic. 
   
   It could probably be described as catastrophic now. Twenty cases have been 
   overturned so far, voiding almost 160 years of prison sentences. If all of 
   Salvador's cases are thrown out, which is looking more likely, the lost 
   sentences will total more than 10,000 years.

   In Walker County, DA David Weeks has already given up. His 
   office tried to retest evidence from Salvador's cases, but the results were 
   haphazard, Weeks told the Hunstville Item. In a case where [Salvador] said 
   there was drugs, there wouldnt be. And when he said there were no drugs, 
   there were drugs. "Its clear that all the cases [Salvador] worked on are 
   irreparably damaged, Weeks said. He's already making arrangements to expunge 
   the records of every affected defendant. It blew up in our faces.