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Colorado Successfully Pressures FBI To Release DNA Info; Racial Bias Infects DNA Databases
Loaded on June 15, 2007
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2007, page 23
State law enforcement agencies have struck a tentative deal with FBI officials that allows agencies to share previously privileged information.
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Searches,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Crime,
Databases.
Location:
Colorado.
The deal resulted from the brutal rape and beating of a Colorado woman who literally lost an eye from the attack.
DNA from the rapist was compared to more than ...
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