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With Recession Coming, Can We Deal with a New High in Cybercrime?
May 13, 2020
With the coronavirus economic crisis deepening, experts at University of Portsmouth are warning it will lead to the highest levels of fraud and cybercrime ever recorded.
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Colorado Court Rules STRmix is 'Relevant and Reliable' Practice for Interpreting Likelihood Ratios
May 11, 2020
The Colorado District Court for Eagle County has ruled that STRmix "is a relevant and reasonably reliable practice for interpreting likelihood ratios under 1,000 with low quality samples.”
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Police Stop Fewer Black Drivers at Night When 'Veil of Darkness' Obscures their Race
May 11, 2020
The largest-ever study of alleged racial profiling during traffic stops has found that blacks, who are pulled over more frequently than whites by day, are much less likely to be stopped after sunset.
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Technique Delivers Complete DNA Sequences of Chromosomes Inherited from Mother, Father
May 11, 2020
Researchers have shown that it is possible to disentangle the DNA sequences of the chromosomes inherited from the mother and the father to create true diploid genomes from a single individual.
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Pennsylvania State Has Reduced its Rape Kit Backlog to 94
May 11, 2020
In September 2015, Pennsylvania state had more than 3,000 rape kits awaiting testing at a police department or crime lab. Today, there are 94.
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Washington Psychiatric Hospital Staff Say COVID-19 Tests Unsafe
May 11, 2020
A 400-member nurses union is calling for top administrators at the Department of Social and Health Services, which oversees the hospital, to be removed over their handling of the outbreak.
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COVID-19 Could Spark ‘Digital Justice’ Transformation in Court System
May 08, 2020
A report from the University of Surrey (UK) is shedding light on the impact of a new “video booking tool” used for first-appearance remand hearings in court.
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Forensic Artist Gives Face to Woman Found in Oregon Woods
May 08, 2020
Forensic artist Joyce Nagy recently assisted the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office with a facial reconstruction, pictured here.
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DNA Evidence Overturns Murder Case With 7 Years of Pre-trial Detention
May 08, 2020
Darrill Henry walked out of Angola prison two months after Judge Dennis Waldron — the judge who presided over his 2011 trial – granted post-conviction relief and ordered a new trial in his case based on DNA evidence that excludes Henry.
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Police Raise Cannabis Concerns in Washington State
May 07, 2020
The study found that officers in that state, although not supportive of recriminalization, had a variety of concerns, from worries about the effect on youth to increases in impaired driving.
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Forensic 'Liquid' Protects Priceless Artifacts Against Theft
May 07, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of priceless artifacts in several museums in Iraq have been protected from the threat of theft and looting by marking them with a unique invisible code, in a new security protocol.
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Gap in Stops of White, Minority Drivers Shrinks for 2nd Year
May 06, 2020
The disparity between the rate of police traffic stops in Connecticut of black and Hispanic drivers and of their white counterparts shrank for a second consecutive year in 2018.
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Alternative Light 5x Better at Detecting Bruises Across Diverse Skin Types
May 06, 2020
The researchers used yellow, orange and red colored filters across 10 different wavelengths ranging from 350 (UV) to 535 nm to analyze bruises on participants with a diverse range of skin types.
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2015 Rape is New Mexico's First Forensic Genealogy Case
May 06, 2020
A man in New Mexico could face at least a decade in prison after investigators tracked his DNA through GEDmatch to link him to a 2015 rape.
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Study: Drug Overdose Epidemic is Transmitted from Old to Young
May 05, 2020
Researchers show that the generation a person was born into strongly predicts how likely they are to die from a drug overdose, and at what age.
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Portland Police ID Suspect in 20-year-old Homicide with Forensic Geneology
May 05, 2020
The missing person case was reclassified to a homicide and the subsequent investigation garnished DNA evidence, but it was and remained unidentified in the national DNA database.
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Knocking Down Barriers to Healthcare for Rural Sexual Assault Victims
May 04, 2020
The Penn State College of Nursing’s SAFE-T Center team is working to address barriers to healthcare for rural sexual-assault victims with their new telehealth solution, the SAFE-T System.
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Ohio Authorities Solve 40-year-old Cold Case Slaying of Dismembered Teen Boy
May 04, 2020
Authorities say they have solved the killing of a 15-year-old Ohio boy whose dismembered remains were found nearly 40 years ago.
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Maryland Court of Appeals Reverses 2 Murder Convictions, Grants Writs of Actual Innocence
May 04, 2020
The decision is based on palm print evidence found at the crime scene matching an alternative suspect, as well as critical evidence about the reliability of informant testimony that was withheld from the defense.
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Proteomic Method Can Estimate How Long a Corpse Has Been Submerged
May 04, 2020
In a first-of-its-kind study, Northumbria University professor Noemi Procopio and colleagues have applied the principles of forensic proteomics to the estimation of postmortem submerged interval in aquatic environments.
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