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 Daily News has learned. The abrupt April 19 departure o... 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 will revolutionise the country’s fight against cri... 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 because they are incompatible with life – were identified... 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 wanted to find a way to collect the DNA of the migrants bef... 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 has the potential to help police take violent criminal... 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, which eventually cleared him. Tommy Braden, 26, of Sapul... 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 arrested for, but not convicted of, a crime. Currently,... 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 such proposed legislation. 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 September. Hosey’s lawyers, Kristina Wildeveld and... 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 Tuesday to MPs, who have mooted the fast-tracking of legisla... Read more