The WMU-Cooley Innocence Project worked with the Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit to DNA test the Molotov cocktail used to start the fire. No DNA results were obtained. However, there was other new evidence.
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“Scientific objectivity.” It’s a concept as old as the Enlightenment and a mainstay of mid-20th-century approaches to science, thought to be a core tenet of forensic scientific analysis and testimony. It’s also a myth—and it’s dangerous.
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Needle-exchange programs in cities can provide vital information about intravenous (IV) drug use, as well as more comprehensive opioid monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging trends and novel psychoactive substances (NPS), according to the preliminary results of such a program in D.C.
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A Tennessee man charged in the July 1992 killings of an Indiana woman and her 4-year-old daughter was linked to the deaths by a new analysis of DNA collected from the mother’s body, court records show.
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A man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in a 2012 Butte County case that was solved using forensic genealogy.
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The research project will seek to rectify the current inability of first responders (i.e., police, fire and emergency management services) to use their CAD systems to electronically exchange information with other CAD systems during a joint emergency response.
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An international team of researchers has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2 million years old.
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In December 2020, the National Institute of Justice put out a request for proposals to manage NamUs. The acceptance period has now ended and today, NIJ said they expect to award a new contract for services by April.
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The BC Provincial Forensic Firearms Laboratory (PFFL) will be a centralized firearms intelligence hub, helping increase police capacity to analyze illegal firearms that were used for criminal activity and seized by police.
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The ForenSeq Kintelligence Kit pairs with GEDmatch PRO to provide a fit-for-forensic-purpose workflow that generates investigative leads, minimizes privacy concerns and maintains chain of custody.
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