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Canada: Kyle Unger Acquitted Of Murder After 14 Years In Jail
AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian man who spent 13 years in prison for the murder of a teenage girl in 1990 was acquitted Friday. A judge acquitt...
Kyle Unger Acquitted Of Murder After 14 Years In Jail
AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian man who spent 13 years in prison for the murder of a teenage girl in 1990 was acquitted Friday. A judge acquitt...
True Stories of False Confessions
John Maki | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
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In most police and courtroom dramas, crimes are solved as soon as a character confesses. However, as a new book shows, a confession is sometimes only the beginning of the real story.
Colorado DA Announces Plans To Review As Many As 5,000 Cases Using DNA Technology
The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 12.02.2009 | Denver
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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...
Cameron Todd Willingham: Did Texas Execute An Innocent Man?
Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
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Huffington Post blogger Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, weighs in on the new evidence revealed by an investigative report in the New Yorker on...
10 "Simple" Steps to Health Care Reform
Francine Hardaway | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
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Here are ten simple things we can do to reform health care.
Sonnier's Release Highlights Continuing Problem
John Terzano | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
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Ernest Sonnier's release is just the latest case that highlights the ongoing problem of wrongful convictions in Texas. And writ large, it is a reminder of the continuing struggle we face to fix our nation's broken criminal justice system.
DNA Testing of Detained Immigrants Easier Said Than Done
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess And Emily Witt | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
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Seven months after the federal government gave final approval to a controversial plan to collect DNA samples from undocumented immigrants, the program...
Supreme Court DNA Ruling: Once Again Roberts Court Allows "Procedural" Issues to Trump Justice
Robert Creamer | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that convicted inmates do not have the constitutional right to DNA testing, even though it could, as Justice Stevens said in his dissent, "ascertain the truth once and for all."
Supreme Court Says Convicts Have No Right To Test DNA
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday that a convicted rapist has no constitutional right to test biological evidence used at his trial i...
Senate Rejects Taking Mandatory Felon DNA Samples
AP | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The state Senate has rejected a plan to start taking DNA samples from everyone arrested on felony charges in Illinois. The ...
Long Live Science! Now Let's Be Careful!
Lennard Davis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
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The Right was wrong in banning stem-cell research, but the Left shouldn't over-correct by insisting that science be free to do anything it likes without the input of informed citizens.
Students Discover Through DNA Testing That New York Fish Is Often Mislabeled
NYT | John Schwartz | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home
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Many New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets are playing a game of bait and switch, say two high school students turned high-tech sleuths. In ...
Post-Conviction DNA Testing Shouldn't Depend on Miracles
John Terzano | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
Our criminal justice system continues to place significant obstacles in the way of post-conviction DNA testing that could determine whether the wrong people have been punished for crimes they didn't commit.
California's Misguided War on Self-Knowledge
Adam Hanft | Posted 07.05.2008 | Living
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California is trying to stop companies from marketing genetic testing to state residents. But accurate genetic understanding could have enormously beneficial implications for individuals.
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