December 2, 2003
Texas Tech Professor, Accused of Mishandling Plague Samples, Is Convicted on Some Charges
A medical researcher at Texas Tech University whose alleged mishandling of plague samples prompted a bioterrorism scare in West Texas was convicted on Monday on 47 of 69 charges against him, but not on the principal charge of lying to federal officials.
Thomas C. Butler, chief of the infectious-diseases department at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, was accused of lying to investigators about the disappearance of 30 vials of
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