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In The News

2016-05-02 | Inside the FBI’s Colossal Fingerprint Factory
Before the FBI went digital, it looked a little more like a giant stock warehouse for Amazon.com. In the 1920s, the bureau was only employing 25 workers to classify around 800,000 print cards, but by 1943, there were more than 20,000 employees sorting through 70 million fingerprints.

2016-05-02 | How child predator was caught by tiny clue in photo he posted online
"Utilizing some technology that hadn't even been released to the public yet we were able to take a look at the bottle and reverse out some of the motion blur," Cole said. They can now see the offender's first name "Stephen," the first two letters of the last name and the first three digits on the prescription order. With that he applies to the pharmacy for the customer details of every person who fits that criteria. It narrows the list down to a man named "Stephen Keating." But that's not all. The offender's fingers are also in the picture and incredibly this crack team manages to pull the fingerprints from the image.

2016-04-28 | US House Unanimously Passed Bill Requiring Warrants for Email
The Email Privacy Act unwinds a President Ronald Reagan-era law that allows authorities to access e-mail and data from service providers without a warrant if the message or data is at least 180 days old. The 1986 e-mail privacy law, adopted when CompuServe was king, considered cloud-stored e-mail and other documents older than six months to be abandoned and ripe for the taking

2016-04-28 | Secondary DNA Transfers Questioned in Cold Case Murder Trial
But defense attorney Gina Capuano cross-examined the DNA analyst. Her questioning this week at trial indicated that the DNA could conceivably have come from secondary transfer – from spit in a highly-trafficked area, for instance – that was found on Hanible’s sneaker heel. The mixture reportedly came from as many as three people, at least one male.

2016-04-27 | DNA-Mixture Analysis Exonerates Wrongly Convicted Man in Indiana
The first trial for Pinkins and Roosevelt Glenn in 1990 had ended in a mistrial, due to DNA evidence that excluded them as contributors to the genetic mixture. But at a second trial, they were convicted based mostly off of serological evidence – blood types and other biomarkers, according to Greg Hampikian, a professor of biology and criminal justice administration at Boise State University, who works with the Idaho Innocence Project.

2016-04-27 | Researchers ‘Unpick’ the Flawed FBI Hair Evidence
Half a dozen witnesses testified that Santae Tribble was sleeping at his mother’s home in Maryland the day a 63-year-old cab driver was shot and killed in Washington D.C. in 1978. Nevertheless, two years later, an FBI expert testified that Tribble’s hair matched hair found at the scene “in all microscopic characteristics,” according to an Innocence Project report. The prosecution emphasized the “one chance in ten million” statistic that the hair did not come from the accused.

2016-04-25 | DNA-Mixture Analysis Exonerates Wrongly Convicted Man in Indiana
A man who served 24 years in prison for a rape conviction was exonerated and released today – the first of its kind based on the latest DNA-mixture analysis methods.

2016-04-19 | Why it’s so hard to keep bad forensics out of the courtroom
“An innocent person was convicted of a heinous crime he did not commit,” Kaufman wrote. “Science helped convict him. Science exonerated him.” DNA testing cleared Morin, but Kaufman’s inquiry into what went wrong poked giant holes in the reliability of the hair and fibre comparison evidence that was the basis of the jury’s guilty finding. Kaufman set his sights squarely on flawed forensic science, and the system that propped it up. His goal: to prevent a similar mistake from happening again.

2016-04-14 | DNA Exonerates Man Convicted on Bite-Mark Evidence, 33 Years Later
Harward was locked up in 1983, after being convicted of the four criminal counts. Harward had been a sailor on the U.S.S. Carl Vinson at the time. Even though he was 26 and had a moustache (an eyewitness description pegged the killer as 19 or 20 and clean-shaven), he was convicted based on bite marks on the surviving woman’s legs. Two forensic odontologists told the jury the marks conclusively came from Harward.

2016-04-07 | Lawmakers set aside more money for new crime lab
Right now there is $2.1 million set aside for planning and design. We're told they'll need over 30 millions dollars to build the facility. It's projected to be finished in early 2019.