In New Jersey, criminal defendants who claim they are innocent, had to be incarcerated in order to avail themselves of DNA testing procedures at the cost of the state. New Jersey Governor Ch... Read more
California’s DNA law allows police to collect DNA from anyone arrested on suspicion of a felony – without a warrant and without being charged or convicted of a crime. Those DNA samples... Read more
A new DNA database, the first of its kind in Ireland, will be operational from November 20 and permits Gardaí to take bodily samples, such as hair or salvia, from crime suspects. Minister fo... Read more
Joseph A. Buffey was originally arrested in connection with burglaries conducted in 2001. Around the same time a 83-year old woman was robbed and raped in Clarksburg and Mr. Buffey, then 19,... Read more
DNA samples taken from a murder scene at a Yale graduate scientific laboratory in 2009, revealed two profiles. One matched a co-worker later implicated in the crime through other evidence, a... Read more
According to the Travis Country Distric Attorney’s Office, hundreds of DNA samples may need retesting, due to scientific concern over the interpretation of DNA results and issues with a DNA... Read more
The 4th District Court of Appeal ruled that Proposition 47, that reduced certain non-violent felonies to misdemeanors, applies to juveile offenders the same as adults. But what happens to th... Read more
The arrest of filmmaker Michael Usry, known for his violent, murder-centered films, has made many headlines. Last year he was suspected in the 1996 murder of a young woman in Idaho Falls, Id... Read more
Why do two seemingly unrelated individuals – one black and one white – share the same two markers at nine of the 13 places in the standard DNA profile? In 2001, the DNA unit of A... Read more
Following public criticism of India’s draft DNA Bill for its lack of safeguards to protect privacy and human rights, the Department of Biotechnology held a two week consultation in Aug... Read more