Police in Maryland can resume collecting DNA from suspects charged — but not yet convicted — in violent crimes, and the U.S. Supreme Court might be inclined to let them do so permanently. U.... Read more
Changes intended to include more people in New York’s DNA database of criminals has taken effect. New York is now collecting DNA samples from everyone convicted of a felony or penal mi... Read more
The Supreme Court signaled on Monday that it may review whether law enforcement officials may collect DNA samples from people who have been accused, but not convicted, of serious crimes. Chi... Read more
An appellate panel should limit the scope of California’s Proposition 69, which authorized DNA collection of anyone arrested on suspicion of a felony. In 2004 California voters approve... Read more
A federal appeals court decided to take another look at a California law that requires DNA samples to be taken from anyone arrested for a felony, not just after a conviction. A panel... Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court has put on hold — at least for a week — a ruling by Maryland’s highest court that prohibits DNA collection from suspects charged but not yet convicted in violent crime... Read more
Wednesday, the nation was peppered with breathless, if thinly sourced, reports of a shocking link between two very different, seemingly unrelated crimes: a match between DNA samples lifted f... Read more
A link between DNA from the unsolved killing of Sarah Fox, a Juilliard student, in 2004 and DNA taken from a chain placed at the site of an Occupy Wall Street action in March may be the resu... 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
Australia had an instance of a false conviction that was due to a DNA database match fairly recently. It is the case of Farah Jama, who was convicted of rape in a trial in Melbourne, Victori... Read more