A second DNA test will be conducted on two Burmese men accused of killing a pair of British tourists in Thailand amid fears the suspects may have been framed, the Thai premier said today. Za... Read more
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
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 Draft guidance from the forensics watc...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
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
Given the incredible power of DNA to exonerate the innocent and expose the guilty, it’s alarming that a mountain of red tape still impedes its use. This new forensic tool has been a ga... Read more
The rape suspect, court papers said, was identified by a longtime friend who said they committed the crime together. The suspect’s DNA was tied to the crime. But prosecutors hoping to presen... Read more
Three Connecticut Appellate Court judges heard arguments over whether Kevin Benefield’s consent to provide a saliva sample in 1986 covered a more sophisticated DNA test in 2009 that helped g... Read more
More than 100 DNA samples taken from residents of a Bremerton mobile home park during the investigation into a young girl’s rape and murder will not be entered into a criminal database... Read more
CSI has taken a step closer to reality as rapid DNA testing that could identify killers in hours has been revealed. The method reduces the time taken to identify suspects at a crime scene fr... Read more
The MTA is about to get a little more CSI. City bus drivers will soon be armed with DNA swabs to gather evidence in the all-too-common event of an unhinged passenger spitting on them. Transi... Read more