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In The News

2018-11-19 | Exonerated Man Sues Detective Over Blood Spatter Evaluation
Two months after the records request and at a cost of more than $700, the patrol turned over two reports comprising 11 pages. Before Attorney General Josh Hawley decided not to retry Jennings for murder this summer, his office hired a Kansas forensics company to independently review the case. The independent review ruled the blood spatter evidence in the Jennings case was inconclusive in determining if the death was homicide or suicide.

2018-11-14 | Court Ruling Could Erase 20,000 Drunken Driving Convictions
The justices unanimously found that criminal charges pending against a state police sergeant made breath-testing device test results from five counties inadmissible as evidence. Sgt. Marc Dennis was in charge of calibrating the devices, and authorities have alleged that he skipped a required step in the calibration process. Dennis has denied any wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to records tampering and other charges. The court's decision means that as many as 20,667 DWI convictions could now be challenged, according to state authorities and the lawyer for the now-dead plaintiff who brought the case that the court ruled on.

2018-10-28 | DNA and fingerprinting advances led to speedy arrest in bombing case
Though stakes were high, all it took was for a team of law enforcement agencies to work together and find a single fingerprint and a small amount of DNA to track down Sayoc, an Aventura, Florida, man who boasted a long arrest history and is now being held at a federal detention center in downtown Miami.

2018-10-26 | Houston crime lab fires investigator after alleged testing policy violation
The Houston Forensic Science Center has fired a crime scene investigator who violated policy by using unapproved equipment that resulted in false negatives for biological evidence in at least two sexual assault cases, officials said Friday.

2018-10-07 | LAPD Doesn't Have The Resources To Dust For Fingerprints At Most Burglaries
In 2014, the department's fingerprint backlog exceeded 5,400 cases. At the time, Chief Beck attributed the backlog to a shortage of staff within the LAPD's Latent Print Unit. The department prioritized violent crimes, while property crimes took a backseat. "We can't get to every property crime. We just can't," LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese told the Times in 2014. These shortages remain a problem despite attempts to hire and train more staffers, so the department is "limited to sending only 10 fingerprint evidence kits to the crime lab every month for property offenses."

2018-10-07 | After Uniqueness: The Evolution of Forensic-Science Opinions
Big changes are occurring in forensic science, particularly among experts who compare the patterns found in finger-prints, footwear impressions, tool-marks, handwriting, and the like. Forensic examiners are reaching conclusions in new ways and changing the language they use in reports and testimony. This article explains these changes and the challenges they pose for lawyers and judges.

2018-10-05 | Freed After 18 Years, Man at Last Declared Innocent in Woman's Grisly Stabbing
Nolley was released from prison in May 2016 after the Tarrant County district attorney's office said he had been wrongfully convicted. And in May, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Nolley's 1998 murder conviction.

2018-10-03 | Can We Trust Digital Forensic Evidence?
New research at the University of York examining digital forensic laboratories in England and Wales has shown that evidence of the accuracy of digital forensic methods may be missing from the regulatory framework. International standards on digital forensic methods were initially created for calibration and testing laboratories, which use proven scientific techniques to test metals, chemical compounds and other industrial and manufacturing products. These are based on tried and tested methods and published industry standards.

2018-10-03 | Sweaty shoe used to convict man in Norton Shores robbery is fair game, appeals court says
Muskegon County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Timothy Maat said he was happy with what he called a landmark ruling. “This is a big deal and it is a landmark decision as it relates to this DNA testing, so we are very pleased,’’ Maat said. When an initial sample was tested by Michigan State Police, it indicated the presence of DNA from four people. But when new technology was applied, it determined the odds of the DNA coming from someone other than Muhammad was one in 100 billion, Maat said.

2018-10-01 | Report: 1000s of DNA Profiles Missing From Databases
The total number of missing DNA profiles is unknown, but the investigation found several widespread collection gaps, the Eagle-Gazette reported. In Cuyahoga County, it was discovered last year that more than 15,000 people were missing from the state DNA database from August 2008 to December 2016.