At the Medical Examiner’s Office, the Sussex County Medical Examiner and a New Jersey State Police Anthropologist performed an examination and collected relevant evidence.
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Hearts Alive Village has entered into a contract with Clark County to provide forensics veterinary medicine and care for animals who are suspected victims of abuse and neglect, the first non-profit to do so.
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In Washington state, many counties have supplemented their revenues through fines, such as traffic citations and court processing fees. Those counties have increased the rate at which they sentence women to jail.
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The woman whose DNA from a sexual assault kit was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated property crime six years later plans to sue the city. Three days earlier, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and California State Senator Scott Wiener announced legislation to ensure this invasion of privacy never occurs again.
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After 20 years, homicide victim Richard Wayne Guarro has been identified and an investigation into his death is in progress.
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It was difficult to identify Bentivegna at the time because her feet, hands and head were removed from her body.
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A recent investigation revealed a backlog of more than 20,000 digital devices waiting to be examined by forces across England and Wales. Nottinghamshire Police, however, have just 31 phones, tablets and computers waiting to be examined.
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Charles Morgan is a national security professor at the University of New Haven and an expert on the impact that stress and harsh interrogation techniques can have on human memory.
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Researchers used text mining of NamUs case entries to classify cases as violent or nonviolent based on designated keywords, and then they examined additional case information to compare specific characteristics of violent versus non-violent cases.
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The two sides agreed the Baltimore City Police Lab should retest certain items collected as evidence in the 1999 killing of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee using DNA technology that was not available for Syed’s trials.
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