The Act on Protection and Use of DNA Identification Information has been come into force as of July 2010 for the purpose of prevention of repeated offenses by sex crime offenders. In addition to collection and identification of DNA samples from... Read more
When the Supreme Court issued the Maryland v. King opinion on June 3, 2013 upholding Maryland’s DNA Collection Act, numerous cases were pending in which similar DNA fingerprinting upon arrest statutes in other jurisdictions were being challenged... Read more
In some Texas counties, it takes six months or longer to get DNA test results from the Department of Public Safety, says William Lee Hon, the Polk County criminal district attorney. Now, Mr. Hon and other prosecutors fear that come Sept. 1, when... Read more
University of Leicester forensic scientists have created the UK’s first cat DNA database – which has already helped convict a killer. Experts in the University’s Department of Genetics have compiled a database of DNA from 152 cats around the cou... Read more
Forensic DNA-based familial search methods may mistakenly identify individuals in a database as siblings or parents of an unknown perpetrator, when in fact they are distant relatives, according to research published August 14 in the open access... Read more
THE Minister for Justice has said the introduction of a new DNA database will revolutionise the detection and prevention of rape and sexual assault. Speaking at the release of the recent Annual Report of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRC... Read more
The myth of DNA infallibility has another dimension: when the government warehouses DNA samples on a large scale (as we do in California), we increase the chances that innocent citizens might be arrested, jailed and charged with capital murder,... Read more
Ireland Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said that legislation enabling the establishment of a DNA database is virtually complete. Speaking at the launch of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s annual report this morning, Mr Shatter said he ex... Read more
WHEN the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside of San Jose, Calif., they found Mr. Kumra had been blindfolded, tied and gagged. The robbers took cash, rare coins and ultimately M... Read more
Disputed Forensic Techniques Draw Fresh Scrutiny; FBI Says It Is Reviewing Thousands of Convictions Read more