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First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

New leader for operator of NY thoroughbred tracks

The choice of 60-year-old Christopher Kay comes a year after NYRA fired its top executive and chief counsel amid an investigation into why $8.5 million in winnings wasn't paid to bettors. That was quickly followed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo taking power away ... [Published Ventura County Star - 5 hours ago]

Entities: DNA Evidence, Gold Coast, Andrew Cuomo, Embezzlement

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Grants sought to catalog decades-old DNA evidence

Stored in a cold, tightly secured vault at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation headquarters are almost 20,000 swabs taken in sexual assault cases decades ago, in the years before DNA matching became a viable crime-fighting tool.Now two different factions ... [Published Individual.com - 4 hours ago]

Entities: DNA, DNA Evidence, Crime Lab

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Closing Arguments in Maurice Anthony Trial

The jury in the Maurice Anthony murder trial is set to get the case Wednesday.Anthony of Brooklyn is accused of killing Eric Dantzler of Binghamton during a robbery on Corliss Avenue in Johnson City in 2010.In it's closing arguments Tuesday, the defense ... [Published WICZ - 4 hours ago]

Entities: DNA Evidence, Robbery, Homicide

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Antonin Scalia

FORUM: Supreme Court’s DNA decision a good result despite its flawed reasoning

This month, in a case that one justice described as perhaps the most important criminal procedure case this court has heard in decades, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, notwithstanding the Fourth Amendments prohibition against unreasonable searches ... [Published New Haven Register - 6 hours ago]

Entities: DNA, Crime, Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 reports

Gatorade

WA: DNA Evidence From Gatorade Trips Copper-Wire Thieves

Prosecutors have charged two men with what is apparently the biggest metal theft in state history, based in part on DNA evidence from a pair of Gatorade bottles.Related ContentStoriesRelated TermsMoreProsecutors have charged two men with what is apparently ... [Published Mass Transit Magazine - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Gatorade, DNA Evidence, Dan Satterberg, Corroboration

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 reports

DNA frees 1 man, lands 2nd man in jail for rape

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. --DNA evidence has led authorities in East St. Louis to charge one East St. Louis man with rape while freeing another.St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly said Monday that DNA in a database led to the arrest of 20-year-old ... [Published Fort Mills Times - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Rape, DNA, DNA Evidence, prison

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 reports

Lundy DNA evidence questioned at appeal

Two specks of human tissue found on convicted double murderer Mark Lundy's polo shirt are under intense scrutiny at his Privy Council appeal in London.Lundy's lawyer David Hislop, QC, overnight raised significant doubts about the reliability of evidence ... [Published Sunday Star-Times - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: DNA Evidence, Privy Council, Dame Sian Elias, neuropathologist

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 reports

Cold Case Murder Arrest

A trial has been set for Oct. 15 for a Des Moines man charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 17-year-old Ottumwa girl in 1974.The Ottumwa Courier reports a judge set the trial Monday for 67-year-old Robert Eugene Pilcher in the Wapello County ... [Published WOWT - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Homicide, Arrests, First-Degree Murder

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Family new-home offer

HOUSING officials have said they are prepared to find a new home for a Tiverton family subjected to a catalogue of anti-social behaviour.Nicola Joyce, of Magnolia Court, says her three children aged seven, nine and 11 are being affected by the incidents, ... [Published This is Devon - 22 hours ago]

Entities: DNA Evidence, Police, Property

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

DNA evidence inconclusive in Oxnard strangling death, expert testifies

Ventura County StarDNA evidence found on the body of a transient woman strangled nearly three years ago could not conclusively be linked to the man accused of killing her, a forensic expert said Monday.Forensic pathologist Song Wicks of the Ventura County ... [Published Ventura County Star - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: DNA Evidence, Deponent, DNA, John Cox

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Pair found guilty of rape of schoolgirl

Two Canberra men have been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a drunk teenage schoolgirl at a Griffith unit last year.An ACT Supreme Court jury deliberated for about eight hours to find Kevin O'Rafferty, 42, guilty of one count of sexual assault ... [Published Melbourne Age - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Jason Dodd, Sexual Assault, Rape

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Lundy DNA evidence 'not reliable', court hears

Convicted murderer Mark Lundy should not have been found guilty of killing his wife and daughter on the basis of DNA evidence, according to an expert consulted during the murder investigation material not presented to Lundys defence team at his 2002 ... [Published Southland Times - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Privy Council, DNA Evidence, Murderer, Palmerston North (New Zealand)

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"My hope would be that we find her family, her relatives. Somebody is looking for her" he said

Meet the man who helped find remains of a headless little girl [Published KSDK NewsChannel 5 - 4 hours ago]

"If we can't find it in there, we have to manually search those boxes in the vault" he said

Grants sought to catalog decades-old DNA evidence [Published Individual.com - 4 hours ago]

...BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 "Among other issues, the team found that Ohio s justice system is 3.8 times more likely to impose the death sentence on someone who kills a white victim than a black victim, does not take adequate steps to preserve DNA evidence while a death row inmate remains behind bars, fails to record police interrogations or take steps to prevent faulty line-up identifications, and provides inadequate pay for lawyers defending indigent defendants."

The American Bar Association Says Ohio Executions Are Racially And Geographically Biased. [Published Boston IMC - 6 hours ago]

...this ruling: The requirement that police have sufficient reason to believe a person committed a crime before searching that person," Galigani said. "I am very concerned for very negative potential implications this ruling may have on liberty and privacy.”"

Privacy Under Fire in U.S. Supreme Court Maryland v. King Case; Gainesville Criminal Defense Lawy ... [Published PRWeb - 7 hours ago]

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Meet the man who helped find remains of a headl... [Published KSDK NewsChannel 5 - 4 hours ago]
Grants sought to catalog decades-old DNA evidence [Published Individual.com - 4 hours ago]
Closing Arguments in Maurice Anthony Trial [Published WICZ - 4 hours ago]
Gardaí say it is likely Kerry murder victims kn... [Published Irish Times - 5 hours ago]
New leader for operator of NY thoroughbred tracks [Published Ventura County Star - 5 hours ago]
The American Bar Association Says Ohio Executio... [Published Boston IMC - 6 hours ago]
FORUM: Supreme Court’s DNA decision a good resu... [Published New Haven Register - 6 hours ago]
Privacy Under Fire in U.S. Supreme Court Maryla... [Published PRWeb - 7 hours ago]
Trial: Man BeatenTo Death In Health Dept. Parki... [Published WCTV6 - 7 hours ago]
“Breaking Bad” producers bring highly praised “... [Published HamptonRoads.com - 8 hours ago]
Dubai gardener accused of raping boy at knifepoint [Published 7 Days Abu Dhabi - 9 hours ago]
DNA frees 1 man, lands 2nd man in jail for rape [Published Fort Mills Times - 9 hours ago]
Wisconsin Senate passes venture capital bill [Published Ventura County Star - 9 hours ago]
Four arrested in Gloucester burglaries [Published Hampton Roads Daily Press - 10 hours ago]
WA: DNA Evidence From Gatorade Trips Copper-Wir... [Published Mass Transit Magazine - 13 hours ago]
Marin County trial begins for alleged serial ki... [Published SGV Tribune - 13 hours ago]
Cleveland Turns Backlogged Rape Kits Into Strea... [Published Slate - The XX Factor - 14 hours ago]
Jerome man pleads guilty in sexual assault case [Published South Carolina Enquirer-Herald - 15 hours ago]
Murder trial for suspected serial killer begins [Published Todaysthv.com - 16 hours ago]
Mother finally feels free after charges dismiss... [Published Chicago Tribune - 17 hours ago]
County supervisors OK mental health contract [Published Ottumwa Courier - 17 hours ago]
Cold Case Murder Arrest [Published WOWT - 18 hours ago]
Jury finds two guilty of burglary [Published Individual.com - 20 hours ago]
DNA swabs still controversial [Published New Jersey Online - 20 hours ago]
Family new-home offer [Published This is Devon - 22 hours ago]
Barry Beach should be returned to the community [Published Helena Independent - 23 hours ago]
DNA evidence from Gatorade trips copper-wire t... [Published Seattle Times - Jun 18 2013]
Crime Roundup: Lake Charles man charged with se... [Published American Press - Jun 18 2013]
DNA evidence inconclusive in Oxnard strangling ... [Published Ventura County Star - Jun 18 2013]
Two men charged with stealing 4.3 miles of copp... [Published Renton Reporter - Jun 18 2013]

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Cleveland Turns Backlogged Rape Kits Into Strea... [Published Slate - The XX Factor - 14 hours ago] The shocking case of Ariel Castro, who kidnapped three young women and held them for years as rape-and-torture objects, fascinated the nation when it broke last month. But Cleveland, Ohio has had a problem with residents living in fear of sexual predators ...
No Witnesses? No Rape, Says Pakistan's Islamic ... [Published Global Voices Online - Jun 12 2013] A ruling by Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) dismissing DNA as primary evidence in rape cases has received much flak from activists in the country. The ruling has its fair share of supporters though, with some happy that there is a ...
How The Right Wing Uses Women As A Scapegoat Fo... [Published Think Progress - Jun 07 2013] NRA ad makes the case that looser gun laws keep women safe Mississippi is set to enact an unusual proposal to combat sexual assault and teen pregnancy. Beginning July 1, the state will require doctors to collect the umbilical cord blood of young ...
Professor Kaye discusses implications of DNA ev... [Published Penn State Live - research - Jun 06 2013] After attending the oral arguments in Maryland v. King, a case that came before the U.S. Supreme Court dealing with DNA evidence, Penn State Dickinson School of Law professor and preeminent expert on DNA and statistical evidence David Kaye predicted that ...
US Supreme Court approves warrantless DNA sampl... [Published St George West - Jun 03 2013] By Madison Ruppert: Law enforcement can now force suspects arrested for serious crimes to give samples of their DNA without a warrant, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday. This is surely going to be a controversial decision, as their ruling ...