On Sept. 8, my client Jamie Peterson walked out of a jail in Kalkaska, exonerated by DNA after 17 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. The DNA testing not only excluded P... Read more
New South Wales police are collecting DNA samples from thousands of criminals with spent convictions to help solve cold cases and future crimes. Police are planning to take a further 2,000 s... Read more
Ohio lawmakers should revisit a flawed 2011 Ohio law that requires that DNA be collected from all adults arrested — but not yet convicted — for felony crimes. Recent reported inc... Read more
Somebody note the date and time: Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, the conservative former gubernatorial candidate who spent much of the spring trashing Gov. Jerry Brown, just said something nice ab... Read more
Hong Nam-soon cries each time she watches broadcasts of North and South Korean relatives, inevitably filled with weeping and lingering hugs, reuniting decades after they were separated by wa... Read more
This week, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announced a plan to accelerate the collection of DNA profiles for the government’s massive new biometric identification database. The FBI... Read more
Rapists and murderers may be able to challenge their convictions after the Home Office admitted juries may have been misled by subjective DNA evidence. Draft guidance from the forensics watc... Read more
The FBI is preparing to accelerate the collection of DNA profiles for the government’s massive new biometric identification database. Developers of portable DNA analysis machines have been i... Read more
Thai police are expanding DNA testing on the island where two British tourists were murdered last week. Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found dead on Koh Tao on 15 S... Read more