The Crime Report
…The forensic sciences bill is an outgrowth of a report two years ago by a National Academy of Sciences panel that called for a federal agency to deal with forensic sciences…
Daily Archives: January 11, 2011
Leahy To Pursue Justice For All Act, Forensic Science Board
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Posted in DNA Legislation
Police forensic lab robbed
News 24 South Africa
Port Elizabeth – The Hawks are investigating a robbery at the SAPF forensic laboratory in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.
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Posted in Forensic Industry News
Missing Pieces from Statue of King Tut’s Grandparents Found
MSNBC
…Egyptologists are hard at work to pin down King Tut’s family tree. Candidates for King Tut’s mother and father were recently identified using DNA analyses from royal Egyptian mummies…
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Posted in Ancient DNA
Idaho Innocence Project Key In International Trial
ABC 6.com
The Amanda Knox case has garnered worldwide attention over the last few years, now a report done by the Idaho Innocence project could help free the American woman convicted of murdering her roommate in Italy.
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Posted in Current Cases, Forensic Industry News, Innocence Project
Alaska Innocence Project faces challenges
Juneau Empire.com
FAIRBANKS — Have authorities in Alaska put an innocent person behind bars? The Alaska Innocence Project is screening about 60 cases.
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Posted in Innocence Project
DNA tests ‘inconclusive’ in paternity cases
Emirates 24/7
DNA analysis is not the accurate method to determine a person’s lineage, according to professors of Islamic Shariah law.
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Police need own DNA machine
New Vision Uganda
THE Police always find themselves in an awkward situation in investigations involving Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) tests. The latest incident is of the two poor women in Kampala who are fighting over a child.
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Posted in Backlogs, Forensic Industry News