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In The News

2015-03-17 | Bill Would Require Post-Conviction Preservation of DNA
A bill that has passed the House and is awaiting action in the Senate would require DNA collected in any felony case charged as a violent or sex offense to be preserved through the length of the offender's sentence, including post-prison community custody. In cold cases, where no one has been charged or convicted, the DNA would have to be maintained throughout the statute of limitations for the crime.

2015-03-16 | Speed Freak Killers case: Retired FBI agent alleges San Joaquin Sheriff's Office sabotaged crime scene
"(The Sheriff's Office) actions at the Linden well were intentional to catastrophically destroy the crime scene," Rinek said. "In my opinion, it's nothing short of a felony. ... This is the most heinous thing I've ever seen."

2015-03-12 | New Orleans filmmaker cleared in cold-case murder; false positive highlights limitations of familial DNA searching
Investigators last year turned to a controversial technique known as familial searching, which seeks to identify the last name of potential suspects through a DNA analysis focusing on the Y chromosome. A promising “partial match” emerged between the semen sample and the genetic profile of Usry’s father, Michael Usry Sr. — a finding that excluded the father but strongly suggested one of his relatives had a hand in the young woman’s murder.

2015-03-12 | Opinions are why 'forensic science' is science
Regardless of the scientific discipline, whether it be DNA, latent fingerprints, or firearm identification, opinions rendered by expert witnesses must always be limited to what the underlying observations and data allow. That is what science is all about. Nothing more. Nothing less.

2015-03-12 | What’s Wrong With DC’s $220 Million Crime Lab?
In March of 2013, the Washington Post released photos, of unpacked boxes, flammable chemicals in glass jugs crammed into sinks, and “general clutter” in the evidence room, and allegations had surfaced that the undermanned staff had to dry blood-stained clothing on sheets of paper on the floors and countertops.

2015-03-10 | D.C. mayor orders audit of crime lab amid dispute over DNA testing
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has commissioned an audit of the city’s new crime lab after forensic experts hired by the U.S. Attorney’s Office said they discovered errors in some of the lab’s DNA analyses, the mayor’s office said Friday.

2015-03-06 | Prosecutors criticize D.C. crime lab’s handling of some DNA evidence
D.C. prosecutors have stopped sending DNA evidence to the city’s new state-of-the-art crime lab after they said they discovered errors in the way analysts determined whether a sample can be linked to a suspect or a victim. Prosecutors have hired two outside DNA experts to review 116 cases, including rapes and homicides, and have been notifying defense attorneys.

2015-03-02 | The Law has Failed, Not Forensic Science
Yet just when leaders in the forensic science community find themselves on the cusp of getting help, their efforts are hijacked by legal reform specialists and willing accomplices who quickly shift the conversation from helping forensic science to blaming it. That is precisely what happened with the creation of the NAS committee on forensic science, which forensic science leaders in the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors pleaded the federal government to create in an effort to identify the “needs” of the forensic science community. As it turned out, the committee’s final report was a stab in the back.

2015-02-28 | The Law has Failed, Not Forensic Science
Forensic science, of course, needs help. It is underfunded, inadequately supported, and misunderstood by attorneys, judges, and elected officials. Since it struggles so mightily to keep pace with the demand for its services, how could it possibly summon the strength to correct the fictional narrative?

2015-02-25 | Houston's Rape Kit Backlog Is Finally Getting Attention: FBI Database Finds 850 DNA Matches
Houston is finally making good on its promise to test more than 6,000 rape kits. The Associated Press reported this week 29 people have been charged after the untested rape kits, which were completed in the fall, turned up 850 hits in the FBI’s nationwide database. Of those people, six have been convicted. Mayor Annise Parker said this is a milestone for rape survivors and their families and friends, “because it means their cases are receiving the attention they should have years ago.” In some cases, this could be as far back as 30 years.