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In The News

2015-06-30 | Two men serving life in prison for 1987 murder ask Md. judge to reopen case
Two of three men convicted in a grisly 1987 murder on Maryland’s Eastern Shore have asked a judge to appoint Attorney General Brian E. Frosh to take over the case after state prosecutors disclosed that new handprint evidence points to a different suspect in the case.

2015-06-30 | Fingerprint Accuracy Stays the Same Over Time
“We wanted to answer the question that has plagued law enforcement and forensic science for decades: Is fingerprint pattern persistent over time?” said Anil Jain, University Distinguished Professor, computer science and engineering, at Michigan State University. “We have now determined, with multilevel statistical modeling, that fingerprint recognition accuracy remains stable over time."

2015-06-25 | Problems At Lab Slowed Serial Killer Probe; Several Victims' DNA Found In Suspect's Van
Problems in the Connecticut state police crime lab delayed for at least four years the identification of a woman investigators think was killed by suspected serial killer William Devin Howell and hindered their ability to match several different samples of DNA found in Howell's van, The Courant has learned. The problems at the state police lab, including a significant delay in matching the DNA of bones found in 2007 with the mother of one of the victims, were acknowledged by lab officials after inquiries from The Courant.

2015-06-25 | Crime lab board gets new member: Anthony Graves
A man who spent almost 20 years in prison - including 12 on death row - for murders he did not commit will now help oversee the city of Houston's new crime lab. On Wednesday, Anthony Graves was appointed to the board of the Houston Forensic Science Center.

2015-06-24 | Detectives use fingerprints from photo of suspect’s hand to ID him in child porn case
Trailblazing agents in Sarasota County used fingerprints from a photograph of a suspect's hand to identify him as the creep seen sexually abusing a 1-year-old boy in incriminating images found on his confiscated cell phone.

2015-06-18 | Fragmentation of cases may mean missing part of the puzzle
What this means is different exhibits from a case are sent to different laboratories and no one forensic scientist maintains an overview of what is happening. Such cases are managed by the Police rather than forensic scientists and the argument is that the Police may not fully understand the importance of the results or may be more swayed by need to restrict the spend rather than the need to produce a full set of results. This concern was highlighted in the 2013 Science and Technology Committee report ‘Forensic Science‘ and in a case report from Forensic Access.

2015-06-16 | US Prosecutor Now Sending Criminal DNA Testing In DC To Lab Run By His Girlfriend
Upon firing the lab’s staff, the mayor appointed the city’s Chief Medical Examiner, Roger Mitchell Jr., as interim director and gave him 30 days to come up with a corrective action plan for all of the lab’s work. That corrective action period has now passed and the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board, one of the agencies that initially audited the city’s lab, is currently conducting a follow-up audit, Bowser said at a Tuesday press conference.

2015-06-11 | Onondaga County crime lab sets policy to prevent recurrence of DA's staff erasing videos
"The examiner was asked to assist the investigator in deleting images from a camera," the lab's director, Kathleen Corrado, wrote two weeks ago in a letter to the lab's accrediting organization. "This request was not related to casework and the camera was not submitted to the laboratory as evidence."

2015-06-10 | Drug lab scandal still haunts Delaware
Delaware's criminal justice system is still reeling more than a year after the state's disgraced drug lab was shut down because of evidence thefts and tampering. The results have been staggering: The state has spent $1.6 million to send drug evidence to a private, out-of-state lab. The Public Defender's Office has filed 1,000 motions asking judges statewide to overturn past drug convictions. The Attorney General's Office has in more than 700 cases agreed to plea deals or dropped or reduced charges.

2015-06-02 | More than $100K needed for test to ID identical twin rapist
The student, then 26, was walking to her car after a night class at Kendall College of Art and Design downtown when she was attacked in November 1999. Traditional DNA tests identified the suspect as Jerome Cooper, of Twin Lake, but police later learned he has a twin brother, Tyrone. The identical twins have identical problems: Both have histories of sexual assault and neither had an alibi. Both are now free. They have denied the attack.