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A reward of $30,000 is being offered to identify the killer of a dog who was found stabbed over 50 times, beaten and stuffed in a suitcase in Hollywood, Florida last week.
10.18.2017
1:36pm
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A federal judge in Chicago is the latest to weigh in on still-disputed legal questions about whether law enforcement can order suspects to put their fingers on fingerprint sensors to unlock a smartphone, concluding it’s not necessarily a violation of...
10.18.2017
12:34pm
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Over a year ago, a group of students in Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Policy Program (CJPP) began working to propel forensic science reform in Massachusetts. On Oct. 2, the students’ work on forensic science reform culminated in a Wrongful...
10.18.2017
12:19pm
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Two Chinese nationals have been indicted on charges they manufactured tons of fentanyl and other powerful narcotics that were then peddled in the United States, killing at least four people and seriously injuring five others, Justice Department officials...
10.18.2017
12:03pm
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Orlando police noticed some crystals on the floorboard of the car 64-year-old Daniel Rushing during a search, and when they used a field testing kit, the white substance tested positive for methamphetamine. Rushing told the officers the substance was...
10.17.2017
1:46pm
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A Dutch forensic team arrived in Malta on Tuesday to help investigate the car bomb slaying of a journalist who scrutinized the country's top politicians and other powerful figures, an official said, as angry Maltese demanded the truth about who killed...
10.17.2017
1:25pm
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In Ohio, the rate of “hits” in CODIS from tested rape kits is higher than just about any other state. But a CODIS hit doesn’t mean detectives are immediately hot on the trail of a serial rapist. That’s just the beginning of a new investigation. And...
10.17.2017
1:17pm
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The head of a state crime lab office was fired Monday after investigators found that staff withheld exculpatory evidence from defense lawyers in thousands of drunken-driving cases since 2011, a disclosure that could threaten many convictions.
10.17.2017
12:04pm
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on a major dispute over the government's authority to force American technology companies to hand over emails and other digital information sought in criminal probes but stored outside the U.S.
10.17.2017
10:53am
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Familial searching, partial matching and lineage searches are in use in many states, and continue to gain ground, according to a series of papers produced for the Office of Justice Programs by the ICF consulting firm.
10.16.2017
1:29pm
