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Paratroopers Learn Battlefield Forensics
By Spc. Michael MacLeod
Paratroopers with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division are learning the basics of finding and collecting forensic evidence as part of the Biometric Intelligence Project, an effort to collect, exploit, and analyze biometric material collected on the battlefield. Scenarios are the heart of the battlefield forensics course, all of which are completed in fewer than 12 minutes - typical battlefield conditions.
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FORENSIC NEWS
  • Sotomayor’s First Term and Lab Analysts Testimony
    The appointment of Justice Sonia Sotomayor could lead to the narrowing of the Melendez-Diaz decision holding that crime lab analysts must provide live testimony concerning lab tests and results. This term, Briscoe v. Virginia provides an opportunity to limit the scope of that ruling.
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  • The Fingerprint Sourcebook
    The NIJ is publishing the The Fingerprint Sourcebook, a guide to the science of fingerprint identification created by experts from the International Association for Identification, in PDF form. Chapters one and four are currently available.
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  • Orange County D.A.’s DNA Database Rapidly Growing
    Orange County has nearly quadrupled its DNA database over the last nine months. The agency’s effort to build a database exempt from the rules that govern state and national DNA repositories has resulted in rapid growth as low-level offenders agree to submit DNA samples in exchange for dropped charges.
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  • Does Texas Forensics Panel Put Politics Before Justice?
    Gov. Rick Perry’s surprise appointment of a conservative ally to lead a panel investigating whether Texas executed an innocent man has raised the question of whether politics will trump science on the state's forensics board.
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    DNA Evidence Powerful, But Not Always the Full Story
    Thousands of Cases in Houston Await DNA Tests
    Biometrics: What’s new?
    Video: How to Use a Stun Gun as an Electrostatic Dust Lifter

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