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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
Filed under: Police Searches, Police
New York City Cops Can Always Tell by Just the Smell by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As far as marijuana is concerned, the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) has little need for a canine corps. The city’s two-legged, blue-clad human-type cops seem to have the best olfactory sense …
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 • November 18, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Filed under: Searches
California Supreme Court: Where Electronics Search Condition of Probation Is Not Reasonably Related to Future Criminality, Condition Is Invalid by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of California held that where an electronics search condition of probation is not reasonably related to future criminality the condition is invalid …
Article • October 19, 2019
Failure to Identify Specific Evidence Sought in Telephone Search Violates Oregon Constitution by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a warrant to search a criminal defendant’s phone violated the Oregon Constitution because it was insufficiently particular, and therefore invalid. During a traffic stop, police …
Article • October 19, 2019
Oregon Identity Theft Convictions Merge Into Aggravated Identity Theft by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson  The Oregon Supreme Court held that the Legislature intended that if the state aggregates multiple identity thefts to serve as the basis for an aggravated identity theft, the identity thefts are lesser-included offenses of the …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Defendant’s Flight From Police’s Illegal Frisk Doesn’t Render Improperly Obtained Evidence Admissible in Maryland by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso  The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that a defendant’s flight during an illegal stop and frisk did not attenuate the link between the officers’ misconduct and the discovery of …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Ninth Circuit Clarifies When Warrantless Searches of Cellphones at Border Are Reasonable by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has clarified when warrantless searches of cellphones at the border are reasonable. Customs and Border Patrol (“CBP”) agents discovered nearly 31 pounds of …
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 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Databases
Is Data Mining an Invasion of Privacy? by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (“NCRIC”) contracted with surveillance and data mining giant Planatir, cofounded by billionaire and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, for services in synthesizing information gathered from databases in hospitals, banks, police departments, and …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Police Searches
Connecticut Supreme Court Rules 5 Days Past Due on Rent While Incarcerated Does Not Deprive Defendant of Expectation of Privacy in Home by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso  The Supreme Court of Connecticut held that the lower court erred in denying defendant’s search of his apartment where the police failed …
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 • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Michigan Supreme Court: Reaching Out Door of Home to Retrieve ID Inadequate to Surrender Fourth Amendment Rights by David Reutter by David Reutter The Supreme Court of Michigan held that a defendant did not expose herself to public arrest when she reached out of her doorway to retrieve her identification …
Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Minnesota Supreme Court: Even With a Warrant, Forced Anoscopy Is Unreasonable Search by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Minnesota ruled that forcing a suspect to undergo an anoscopy to retrieve a baggie from his rectum was an unreasonable search even though police had obtained a warrant …
Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Oregon Supreme Court Announces State Constitution Prohibits Cops From Digging Through Residents’ Trash Without a Warrant by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Departing from 50 years of precedent, the Supreme Court of Oregon held that Oregonians retain a constitutionally protected privacy interest in garbage that they leave at the curb …
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