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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 …
Article • September 17, 2021
London Cop Pleads Guilty to Secretly Filming Nude Women by A London police officer pleaded guilty on September 13, 2021, to using hidden cameras to covertly film the genitals of naked women who answered his advertisement for models to pose for more tasteful nude photographs. The cop, 40-year-old Neil Corbel, …
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 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
SCOTUS: ‘Exceeds Authorized Access’ Under the CFAA Means Accessing Areas of Computer That Are Off-Limits on Computer Otherwise Authorized to Access by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney The Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) held that for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act …
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 • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Bodycams Do Not Hold Cops Accountable, Communities Do by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The widespread popularization of bodycams for police was supposed to bring accountability to the “bad apples” amongst police that drive deadly interactions with citizens. However, years into widespread bodycam use, it is apparent that bodycams, …
Article • April 15, 2021 • from CLN May, 2021
Ninth Circuit Announces Police Inserting Key in Car Door to Determine Vehicle Ownership Constitutes Search Overruling Circuit Precedent by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the insertion of a car key into a lock of a vehicle’s door by police …
Brief • April 6, 2021
Filed under: Strip Searches
Rogers v. DCYF, WA, Complaint, Strip Search, 2021 Case 3:21-cv-05248-RAJ-MLP Document 1 Filed 04/06/21 Page 1 of 23 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 MICHAEL ROGERS, …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Announces Departure From SCOTUS’ Vehicle Exception to Warrant Requirement, Commonwealth’s Constitution Provides Greater Protections by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held that the Article I, Section 8 of the Commonwealth’s Constitution affords greater privacy protections to drivers than the Fourth Amendment to …
Article • February 15, 2021 • from CLN March, 2021
San Francisco Forensic Analyst’s Arrest on Drug Charges Exposes Flawed Lab by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Hundreds of innocent people may have gone to jail based on potentially flawed or falsified test results by San Francisco Office of Chief Medical Examiner (“OCME”) forensic analyst Justin Volk. This alleged misconduct …
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
Federal Judges Beginning to Reject Geofence Warrants by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso Geofence warrants have become a common way for law enforcement to link a crime to a suspect using data gathered from smartphones. However, this process is legally dubious, and two federal judges from the district court in …
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 …
Montana Supreme Court: Renter’s Privacy Not Diminished By Landlord’s Probationary Status by Anthony Accurso   by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Court of the State of Montana held that a defendant’s rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and invasions of privacy were violated when his landlord’s probation officer …
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 …
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