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In The News

2014-12-04 | NIST Study 'Makes the Case' for RFID Forensic Evidence Management
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags—devices that can transmit data over short distances to identify objects, animals or people—have become increasingly popular for tracking everything from automobiles being manufactured on an assembly line to zoo animals in transit to their new homes. Now, thanks to a new NIST report, the next beneficiaries of RFID technology may soon be law enforcement agencies responsible for the management of forensic evidence.

2014-12-03 | The saga of Shawn Parcells, the uncredited forensics ‘expert’ in the Michael Brown case
The CNN report also mentions several specific cases in which Parcells appears to have conducted autopsies on his own without a doctor present, and one bizarre case in which he may have lost a man’s brain.

2014-12-02 | VA Crime Lab Discontinues Services
As of Monday, the Virginia Department of Forensic Science is no longer performing several kinds of trace evidence examinations, prompting concern from police.

2014-12-02 | Hard questions after litany of forensic failures at US labs
At least five high profile cases of serious malpractice at US forensic crime labs have come to light in the last two years, most resulting in the arrest of chemists working there. These scandals have called into question key evidence used in criminal cases, and have resulted in hundreds convictions being overturned. And this malpractice had led critics to ask a bigger question. Is something rotten at the heart of US forensic science?

2014-12-01 | NHC Commissioners agrees to fund a forensic chemist to handle drug cases
The New Hanover Board of Commissioners on Monday approved funding to pay a forensic chemist to work for the Wilmington Police Department to assist in expediting high profile drug cases. According to a proposal in the Commissioners' meeting minutes, the cost would be $41,729 for the rest of Fiscal Year 2014-15. Commissioners agreed to fund the position at the amount of $83,459 per year, as spelled out in an agreement with the City of Wilmington running through Fiscal Year 2017-18.

2014-11-25 | Crime Scene Medical Examiner Took No Measurements, Photos of Brown
The first medical examiner who testified described his role as the “eyes and ears of our pathologist” at the scene of the crime. Pathologists are not dispatched out to the field, so the medical examiner goes “to the scenes for them.” An examiner generally brings a camera along with tools to establish time of death and to collect evidence. His or her job is then to write a report for the pathologist. In the case of Brown, the on-scene examiner’s report included “initial contact with the reporting officer, the reporting person, the location, what I saw when I got there, the condition of the body and a paragraph or two on witness statements.”

2014-11-21 | The FBI Is Very Excited About This Machine That Can Scan Your DNA in 90 Minutes
Schueren grabbed a cotton swab and dropped it into a plastic cartridge. That's what, say, a police officer would use to wipe the inside of your cheek to collect a DNA sample after an arrest, he explained. Other bits of material with traces of DNA on them, like cigarette butts or fabric, could work too. He inserted the cartridge into the machine and pressed a green button on its touch screen: "It's that simple." Ninety minutes later, the RapidHIT 200 would generate a DNA profile, check it against a database, and report on whether it found a match.

2014-11-17 | How Courts Miss Bad Forensics
This is in part a failure of the courts, in part a failure of the federal law (and Congress for passing it), and in part a failure of the elected and public officials who have used and defended Hayne over the years. Regardless of who’s to blame, Koon was convicted due to testimony from an expert the court now admits isn’t credible. For the same court to nevertheless uphold his conviction because he missed a deadline is to keep him in prison on a technicality. It’s a cynical outcome that suggests the criminal justice system values process more than justice.

2014-11-17 | Rapid DNA system lets Arizona DPS, law enforcement obtain DNA profiles in 90 minutes
The process of getting DNA profiles is much faster thanks to a device at the Department of Public Safety in Phoenix that pumps out a profile for detectives in just 90 minutes. "You bring the sample in and prepare it. Place it inside of cartridges. Those cartridges go in the top of the instrument," said Scott Rex, crime lab manager for DPS.

2014-11-17 | New DNA technology is helping catch rapists
It's been documented across the country; thousands of untested rape kits sitting on shelves waiting to be tested. Now new technology could make a huge difference in the way DNA is tested. It's called Rapid DNA.