
What Evidence Should Be Preserved Immediately in a Murder Investigation?
What to preserve first in a Texas murder investigation, what never to touch, and which evidence the State must keep, from video and phones to DNA.

What to preserve first in a Texas murder investigation, what never to touch, and which evidence the State must keep, from video and phones to DNA.

Police calling you a witness doesn’t give immunity or decide whether Miranda applies. How custody, Texas recording rules, and your statements work.

Before you talk to police about a death, learn when Miranda applies, why silence alone may not protect you, and what Texas recording rules require.

Why the defense needs native files and metadata, not screenshots or exports, to test digital evidence in a Texas murder case, and what Texas rules say.

What a toxicology report can and can’t prove in a Texas homicide case: specimens, postmortem changes, lab accreditation, certificates and confrontation.

How the defense evaluates bloodstain pattern opinions in a Texas murder case: what the science supports, records to review, and Rule 702 challenges.
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