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Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
Was the DNA at the Crime Scene Left by the Perpetrator – or by a Pet? by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Collaborating with the Victoria Police Forensic Services Department, forensic science researcher and Ph.D. candidate Heidi Monkman, along with Dr. Mariya Goray – both from the College of Science …
Article • January 15, 2023 • from CLN February, 2023
NYC: The First DNA Gun Crimes Unit in America by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead In the beginning of July 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the City’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham announced at a press conference that NYC is opening the nation’s very first DNA …
Article • January 15, 2023 • from CLN February, 2023
Connecticut Supreme Court Announces ‘John Doe’ Warrant Based on Suspect’s General Description and Partial DNA Profiles, Which May or May Not Include Suspect’s DNA, Fails to Satisfy ‘Particularity Requirement’ of Fourth Amendment by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an issue of first impression with potentially nationwide implications, the Supreme …
Article • January 11, 2023
DNA Databases Can Threaten the Privacy of Individuals Whose Profiles Are Stored in Them, Yet They Remain a Powerful Tool for Law Enforcement by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 30, 2023, police arrested Bryan Christopher Kohberger at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania for the savage stabbing …
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
Indirect DNA Transfer Can Result in Miscarriages of Justice by David Reutter DNA Evidence Is Not as Infallible in Identifying Perpetrator as Most Believe by David M. Reutter Deoxyribonucleic acid (“DNA”) is regarded as the “gold standard” of forensic evidence. It is considered to be virtually indisputable evidence by juries …
Article • March 17, 2022
Rape Victim’s DNA Was Used by Police to Arrest Her on Unrelated Charges Six Years Later by According to an article from Forensic, a woman whose DNA sample from sexual assault evidence was used to arrest her on unrelated property crime charges six years later is planning to sue the …
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
FBI Gives Green Light for Use of Rapid DNA Solution in Booking Stations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Applied Biosystems Rapid HIT ID DNA Booking System was approved by the FBI for use by law enforcement booking stations to automatically process, upload, and search DNA reference …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Announces Impacted Third Party Has Right to Appeal Motion Granting Postconviction DNA Testing by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a third party who is ordered to provide biological materials pursuant to G. L. c. 278A has a right …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Is Orange County’s DNA Collection Scheme Really Voluntary? by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins It’s no secret that anyone who commits a serious crime in the U.S. is likely to have their genetic profile catalogued in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (“CODIS”). This network has connected state DNA databases …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Texas Man Positively Identified by Six Eyewitnesses and Sentenced to Life Granted Actual Innocence Relief as Result of DNA Evidence by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Aaron Scheerhoorn was stabbed to death outside a Houston bar in 2010. During the investigation, multiple witnesses told detectives an unknown Black man …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
DNA Standards Often Make the Difference Between Life and Death by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. DNA analysis standards can make the difference between misleading results and the truth behind a crime, so much so, that this highly sensitive analysis is often the deciding factor in ruling life …
The Clash Between Closed-Source Forensic Tools and the Confrontation Clause by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Technology companies and prosecutors are working together to assert the right of the companies to protect their intellectual property in ways that deny criminal defendants their right to challenge the reliability of forensic …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
Study Finds Lack of Uniformity in New DNA Technology by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Forensic DNA evidence has been used since the 1980s. Public confidence and familiarity with this method grew in the wake of the O.J. Simpson trial and the popularity of television police procedural shows, but the …
Article • September 10, 2021
Charges Dropped Against Man Exonerated by DNA Evidence After 30 Years In Georgia Prison by All charges against Ron Jacobsen were dropped by the District Attorney (DA) for Newnan County, Georgia, on September 1, 2021—over 30 years after he was wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman in Covington …
Article • December 23, 2020
Makers of DNA Analytic STRmix Announce New Enhancement Allowing Better, Faster DNA Searches by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Makers of the ground-breaking DNA analyzing program STRmix have announced an addition to that program that will allow more robust DNA searches and analysis in criminal cases. It’s called DBLR (database …
Article • November 30, 2020
STRmix, a Mixed DNA Separating Technique, Proves its Worth in Criminal Cases by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Since being introduced in 2012, a technique for separating mixed DNA evidence called STRmix has been used in at least 220,000 cases worldwide. STRmix is sophisticated forensic software that resolves DNA samples …
Article • November 15, 2020 • from CLN December, 2020
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Thirty-Fourth Conviction Based on Bite Mark Forensics Overturned by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Eddie Lee Howard, Jr. was the thirty-fourth prisoner whose case has been overturned because of the debunked pseudo-science of bite mark forensics. After 30 years in prison, the district attorney now has the choice whether to …
Article • September 15, 2020 • from CLN October, 2020
New ‘Barcode’ System Puts DNA Sample to the Authenticity Test by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso Researchers have developed a new system that could be used to ensure that the evidence processed in a laboratory is the same evidence that was collected in the field (e.g., from a crime scene). …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Two New Forensic DNA Standards Added to the OSAC Registry by National forensic science organization approves standards for interpreting DNA mixtures. by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/05/two-new-forensic-dna-standards-added-osac-registry The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has placed two new standards covering …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
DNA Database of NYC’s Chief Medical Examiner Plagued with Errors by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Darrell Harris was arrested for a home burglary that occurred in December 2018. A detective from the New York Police Department (“NYPD”) told Harris his DNA had been recovered from a window of the …
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