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Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Justice Office Awards $145 Million in Forensic Science Grants by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Office of Justice Programs at the Department of Justice recently announced grants of more than $145 million being awarded through various programs it helps to fund. These grants will cover initiatives centered on forensic …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
New Technique Separates Mixed DNA Evidence to Tell Suspects from Victims by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When 17-year-old Barbara Blatnik was found dead in December 1987, Cleveland police found DNA under her fingernails, but it was a mixture of hers and her killer’s. At the time, DNA techniques couldn’t …
Article • March 18, 2020 • from CLN April, 2020
Warrant Gives Police Access to DNA Database by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins  Advances in DNA technology over recent years have enabled people to discover genetic predispositions, reconstruct family trees, and track down lost relatives. Nearly 30 million users have uploaded their profiles to DNA sites in hopes of reconnecting …
Article • March 18, 2020 • from CLN April, 2020
Life Sentence for Murder Overturned by New DNA Technology by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. After nearly 10 years behind bars, Lydell Grant, now 42, is on his way to being exonerated after the highest criminal appellate court in Texas vacated his conviction following its review of revised …
Article • February 19, 2020 • from CLN March, 2020
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Federal Rules Limit Searches of Private DNA Databases by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A new policy instituted by the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), effective November 1, 2019, is the first federal rule governing the use of family-tree DNA databases by law enforcement. Services that allow individuals to trace …
Article • February 19, 2020 • from CLN March, 2020
DNA Contamination Threatened Conviction of Innocent Man by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The NYC Medical Examiner’s office (“ME”) reviewed the DNA analysis procedure in a burglary case that was the only evidence used to charge Darrell Harris with the crime. They found that the DNA sample could have been …
Article • December 17, 2019 • from CLN January, 2020
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples, Police
Police Use of Rapid DNA Machines Unregulated by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins For every step that technological advances make on the march of progress, so too are pathways opened to abuse. The current rush among law enforcement agencies to acquire “Rapid DNA” machines has thus raised red flags. These …
Article • December 9, 2019
Suits Demand Cops be Held Accountable for Thousands of Rape Test Kits Sitting Untested by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss More and more women across the nation are filing suit against law enforcement for the backlog of untested rape kits they carry, claiming this is a violation of the Equal …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
The Two-Edged Sword of DNA Exonerates Another Prisoner by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In 1996, 20-year-old Idaho Falls, Idaho, citizen Christopher Tapp was convicted of raping and murdering 18-year-old Angie Dodge. Tapp did not finish high school, so he was no match for educated cops who relentlessly interrogated him …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
National Fingerprint Database Frees Man After 36 Years by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Archie Williams seemed doomed to die in prison. Sentenced to life without parole for a 1982 stabbing and rape, he managed to survive in Louisiana’s Angola as months bled into years, and years pooled into decades. …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Law Professor Peeks at Prosecutor’s Veiled DNA Database by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In April 2007, the Orange County (California) District Attorney (“OCDA”) began what has become the largest database of DNA profiles not created by legislative act. Shrouded in secrecy until now, UC Berkeley Law Professor Andrea Roth …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Connecticut Supreme Court: When Expert’s Testimony Asserts Truth of DNA Profile Prepared by a Different Non-Testifying Expert, Confrontation Clause Is Violated by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Connecticut ruled that when an expert witness testifies to the truthfulness and accuracy of a DNA profile prepared by …
Article • October 15, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
New Jersey Supreme Court Announces New Test to Determine When State May Obtain Second DNA Sample After Unlawfully Obtained First Sample by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of New Jersey rejected the “inevitable discovery doctrine” as being “a poor fit” for determining whether a second DNA sample …
Article • October 14, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples, Juries
Lack of Academic Research in U.S. on Secondary DNA Transfer Affects Criminal Defendants by Steve Horn by Steve Horn The ivory tower of academia. It’s seemingly quite a long distance from the real-world implications of the U.S. criminal justice system’s often brutal iron fist.  It’s a place in which professors …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Killer’s Bold DNA-Based Defense to Get New Mexico Supreme Court Hearing by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Anthony Blas Yepez, in October 2012, beat to death the 75-year-old boyfriend of his girlfriend’s mother in a drunken dispute. Charged with first-degree murder, Yepez said he could not remember much of the …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
MIX13 Reveals Potential Errors in DNA Testing by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A federal study from 2013 showed that manually sorting DNA mixtures is not as foolproof as previously believed. MIX13, which sent the same hypothetical cases to 108 crime labs around the U.S., tested the accuracy of traditional …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Genetic Testing Raises Privacy Concerns by Bill Barton by Bill Barton DNA testing, once an expensive technology, is now so inexpensive that approximately 26 million people have taken advantage of it,” according to Slate.com. “With sites like Ancestry.com and 23andMe, you can easily submit samples of your DNA and receive …
Article • August 21, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Private Companies Use DNA Profiles to Snitch on Customers and Their Families by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Most DNA testing companies will not provide customer data to law enforcement unless there is a lawful court order. But FamilyTreeDNA distinguishes itself by not just permitting police to access its consumer …
Article • August 8, 2019
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Law Enforcement Access To Consumer Genetics Needs to Be Closed by Bill Barton by Bill Barton The United States. is well on the way to establishing a de facto national database, according to an article presented by Future Tense — a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University — …
Article • July 30, 2019
Scientific Experts Urge Forensic Experts to Be More Objective by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Scientific experts have long relied on objectivity to reach conclusions—the ability to prove repeatedly the outcome of an analysis no matter who’s doing the analysis. Forensics experts, on the other hand, have long relied on …
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