Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey D. Clark, who were convicted and sentenced to life in prison, will ask the Kentucky Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow DNA testing of the hairs and other evide... Read more
Human error at a private forensic services lab is being blamed for DNA contamination that led to the wrong man facing trial for rape. Read more
As his defense lawyers were working to free Michael Morton from prison because of a wrongful conviction that raised questions of prosecutor misconduct, Austin police doctored a crime lab rep... Read more
One problem with DNA evidence is the danger of cross-contamination. Alarm bells must ring even more loudly, however, over the relationship between expert forensic staff at the Scottish Polic... Read more
A Virginia law, that allows police to collect your DNA if you are arrested for a violent crime, could be overturned. A Court of Appeals in Maryland has just declared a similar law unconstitu... Read more
The state has overemphasized collecting DNA samples from those arrested for crimes of violence to solve cases while not putting enough resources into gathering forensic evidence at crime sce... Read more
This week the Brazilian Congress approved Bill 2.458/2011, which regulates the collection and storage of genetic profiles from individuals for criminal investigations. It was an uncommonly f... 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 field of forensic science has seen tremendous growth in the last few decades. CSI and other TV series have helped to popularize the use of DNA samples to catch a suspect. DNA evidence, h... Read more
There’s an unknown number of evidence kits across the country — all with the key to solving cold cases — that sit untested Read more