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Halloween: A Perfect Time to Think About Crime Detection

Kate Kelly | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Halloween, "Trial of the Century" OJ Simpson, Crime Detection, Dna Evidence, Fingerprinting, Politics News
Kate Kelly

As our minds fill with thoughts of ghosts and goblins, it seems a fitting time to think about the stories behind two of the tools of crime detection: DNA evidence and fingerprint identification.

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Death from Cluelessness: State Killing Machines and the Penalty of Indifference

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Supreme Court, Rick Perry, Death Penalty, Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas-Executions, Death Row, Execution, Crime Rates, Lethal Injection, Dna Evidence, Death Row Acquittals, David Spence, Ruben Cantu, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Carl Sagan famously said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that killing prisoners acts as a deterrent or keeps police safe is indeed extraordinary.

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Boulder's 55-Year Old Cold Case Could Be Overturned By DNA Evidence

Daily Camera. | Daily Camera | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Boulder Murder, Dna, Dna Evidence, Boulder Colorado, 1954 Boulder Murder, Cold Case, Jane Doe, Home News

Boulder County investigators are testing DNA that could solve the mystery of the identity of Boulder's Jane Doe, a young woman whose beaten and partia...

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Colorado DA Announces Plans To Review As Many As 5,000 Cases Using DNA Technology

The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Juohn Suthers, Colorado DA, Colorado, Dna Testing, Criminal Justice, Dna Evidence, Fbi, Denver News

Funded by a $1.2 million federal grant and using the latest DNA technology, Colorado prosecutors hope to review as many as 5,000 rape, murder and mans...

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Vincent Heyward: DNA Match In Sexual Attacks Leads To Arrest

nytimes.com | RALPH BLUMENTHAL | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Upper Manhattan Rapes, Vincent Heyward, Crime, New York Rape, Dna Evidence, New York News

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Lapses Are the Norm, Not the Exception When It Comes to Our Justice System

Amy Bach | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Exoneration, Dna, Edward Flynn, Criminal Justice System, Walter Ellis, Department of Justice, Evidence, Dna Evidence, Troy Davis, John Dipko, Politics News
Amy Bach

Law enforcement agencies work independently of each other, and don't coordinate well as a rule. When problems do arise, they are quick to renounce responsibility. Usually, they blame each other.

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DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

New York Times | ANDREW POLLACK | Posted 09.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Dna, Science, Dna Evidence Can Be Faked, Dna Evidence Fabricated, Crime, Dna Evidence, Home News

Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold...

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Brian Dugan Pleads Guilty To 1983 Rape And Murder Of Jeanine Nicarico

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Jeanine Nicarico, Nicarico Killing, Brian Dugan, Brian Dugan Guilty, Dna Evidence, Rolando Cruz, Brian Dugan Jeanine Nicarico, Illinois Death Penalty, Burris Rolando Cruz, Chicago News

WHEATON, Ill. — A convicted murderer pleaded guilty Tuesday to the 1983 slaying of a 10-year-old girl in a case that helped lead to landmark ref...

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Senate Rejects Taking Mandatory Felon DNA Samples

AP | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Dna, Dna Testing, Illinois Senate, Dna Evidence, Illinois Dna Testing, Felon Dna Samples, Springfield-Illinois, Chicago News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The state Senate has rejected a plan to start taking DNA samples from everyone arrested on felony charges in Illinois. The ...

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How The Illinois Crime Lab And Blagojevich Got The State's Massive DNA Backlog Wrong

ProPublica | Ben Protess | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michael Sheppo, Rod Blagojevich, Jonathon Monken, Illinois State Police Crime Lab, Dna Evidence, Illinois Dna Testing, Illinois Crime Lab, Illinois Dna Backlog, Chicago News

When the U.S. government hired Michael Sheppo to help eliminate a crushing backlog in untested DNA evidence, he had all the right credentials. As one...

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DNA Evidence Frees Black Man Convicted Of Bear Attack (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Video, The Onion, Funny Videos, Satire, Black Man Convicted of Bear Attack, Black Man Accused of Bear Attack, Dna Evidence, The Onion Video, Dna Evidence Frees Black Man Convicted of Bear Attack, Dna Bear Attack Onion, Comedy News

The Onion is amazing. After 20 years, 9 books, 2 Websites, and dozens of videos, it hasn't gone the least bit stale, and may even have gotten funnier....

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Death Penalty Repeal in the Land of Enchantment

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gail Chasey, Capital Punishment, Death-Penatly, Repeal Death Penalty, Thomas Jefferson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Murder, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, New Mexico, Prison, Electric Chair, New Mexico Governor Richardson, Death Penalty, New Mexico Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Land-of-Enchantment, Dna Evidence, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

New Mexico's lawmakers concluded that they'd had enough of a system that does not deter murders, is unfairly and unequally applied, risks wrongful convictions, and diverts resources.

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Screw CSI: The Chandra Levy Case Reveals, Once Again, Police Can't Find Their Asses with Both Hands

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Rock Creek Park, Orange County (FL) Sheriff's Office, Gary Condit, Stacy Peterson, Chandra Levy, Drew Peterson, Caylee Anthony, Without a Trace, Cold Case File, Law & Order, Csi, W D.C. Police, Fingerprints, Crime Labs, Blood Splatter Evidence, Bite Marks, Handwriting Analysis, Dna Evidence, Ballistics, National Academy of Sciences, Media News
Stanton Peele

What depresses me about Law & Order is not that they expeditiously solve crimes every week through meticulous sleuthing. It's that real law enforcement, crime labs, and investigatory agencies virtually never get things right.

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The Case for Evidence Preservation

John Terzano | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Evidence Preservation, Prison, Crime, Dna Evidence, Biological Evidence, Criminal Law, Rolando Cruz, Politics News
John Terzano

Post-conviction DNA testing has lead to the exoneration of more than 200 wrongfully convicted individuals in the United States. But testing cannot take place unless the evidence is preserved.

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