Forensic evidence is widely considered to be the result of purely objective lab tests, but there's growing proof that psychological bias plays a part Read more
Donald Eugene Gates, convicted of murder in Washington D.C., would spend 28 years in prison before he was exonerated in 2009 through the tireless work of his lawyers at the Public Defender S... Read more
About a year ago, I asked whether any false convictions have resulted from DNA database searches . Of course, if there are any, they might be hard to find, but there is a known recent case o... Read more
An audit of the Punjab Forensic Science Agency, a recently built facility on Multan Road near Thokar Niaz Beg, for 2009-11 has found various irregularities in the hiring of a consultant and... Read more
MAJOR criminal investigations, including the nationwide crackdown on burglars, are being hampered by the failure of successive governments to establish a DNA database. Senior investig... Read more
A new law governing the gathering and retention of data including biometric and DNA information has come into force in the UK. Under the Protection of Freedoms (PoF) Act, which received Roya... Read more
The New South Wales Government is turning to robots to ensure a DNA testing backlog that has dogged the Hunter’s court system does not blowout again. Lawyers and prosecutors have been... Read more
Scores of convictions for serious crimes may have to be reviewed after a serious blunder by a leading private forensics firm led to a suspected rapist being acquitted, the Guardian has learn... Read more
Forensic DNA databases are a potentially powerful law enforcement tool, but may disproportionately target poor and dark-skinned wrongdoers, biotechnologically magnifying flaws in criminal ju... Read more