A top deputy at the medical examiner’s office who has been lauded for her work in DNA testing resigned amid revelations that she sidestepped lab protocol in at least two criminal cases, the... Read more
Kosovo’s Forensics Agency has become one of the 265 labs in more than 40 countries that are using CODIS, the Combined DNA Index System, to manage a database, a move that experts said w... Read more
DNA so dangerous that it doesn’t exist in nature has been given its first useful role – keeping innocent people out of jail. Several sequences of DNA not found in nature – probably bec... Read more
Police have been collecting for over a year now the DNA of African migrants who cross into Israel from Egypt and are incarcerated at the Negev’s Saharonim detention facility. The police want... Read more
The Criminal Law (Forensic Procedures) Amendment Bill – also known as the DNA Bill – is on its way to Parliament after being delayed for five years. Proponents of the bill say it... Read more
An Oklahoma man who was arrested and jailed for allegedly raping a 4-year-old girl intends to sue authorities for holding for three months while he pleaded with them to perform a DNA test, w... Read more
On February 26, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Maryland v. King, which presents the question of whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless collection of DNA from people... Read more
We are very concerned about SB 243, which would allow for the first time the taking of DNA from anyone arrested but not yet convicted of a crime in Nevada. We stand in strong opposition to s... Read more
Defense attorneys are questioning the motives of authorities who on Friday requested the DNA of Gary Lee Hosey Jr.’s passengers in the crash that left four dead and eight injured in Se... Read more
The Minister of Justice, Jeff Radebe, says an announcement on steps being taken to reintroduce the sexual offences courts is to be made as soon as next month. He was speaking on Tuesd... Read more