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Brief • February 13, 2015
Tribble v. Greene et al, DC, Order, wrongful conviction imprisonment DNA, 2016 Filed D.C. Superior Court 02/13/2015 13:12PM Clerk of the Court SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIVIL DIVISION SANTAE A. TRIBBLE, Plaintiff, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Defendant. * * * * * * * * * Civil …
Article • August 13, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
Kansas DNA Testing Eligibility Extended to Second-Degree Murder by Mark Wilson Kansas DNA Testing Eligibility Extended to Second-Degree Murder by Mark Wilson The Kansas Supreme Court held on October 4, 2013 that a state law denying DNA testing to prisoners convicted of second-degree murder violates the Equal Protection Clause of …
Publication • July 1, 2014
Assessment of the 1996 DOJ Review of the FBI Laboratory An Assessment of the 1996 Department of Justice Task Force Review of the FBI Laboratory U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General July 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY1 This is the third review by the Office of the Inspector General …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics by Osagie K. Obasogie by Prof. Osagie K. Obasogie When the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside of San Jose, California, they found Mr. Kumra had been blindfolded, tied and gagged. The robbers took cash, rare coins and …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Oklahoma’s DNA Law Means Post-Conviction Testing Available in All 50 States by Christopher Zoukis On May 24, 2013, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed into law a comprehensive post-conviction DNA review process for defendants in cases involving violent felonies or resulting in sentences of 25 years or more. Oklahoma thus became …
Article • August 15, 2013
Kansas Supreme Court Clarifies Procedures to be followed in Addressing Requests for DNA Testing by In October 2012, the Supreme Court of Kansas reversed a trial court’s denial of a petition for DNA testing by convicted murderer Robert Lackey II. In so doing, the Court clarified the procedures to be …
Article • August 15, 2013
Maryland Court of Appeals Upholds Breathalyzer DNA Seizure by The Maryland Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to suppress DNA evidence used to convict him of manslaughter. In December 1995, Jacqueline Tilghman was raped and murdered. Semen found on vaginal and anal swabs was turned …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Denial of RFRA DNA Challenge by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a lower court erroneously held that an offender’s belief that he can’t give blood was not a religious belief. After pleading guilty to federal charges in California, Gregory Zimmerman was compelled to provide …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Supreme Court Upholds DNA Collection as Part of Jail Booking Procedures by J.R. Bloom The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for DNA collection and analysis to become as routine a part of the jail booking process as fingerprinting and mug shots. In 2009, Maryland police arrested Alonzo King …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Genetic and DNA Evidence: The Emperor Has No Clothes by Ernest P. Chiodo by Ernest P. Chiodo, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., M.B.A., C.I.H. Genetic evidence in the form of DNA profiles has proven to be a powerful tool in the advance of justice by proving the innocence of accused persons. …
Brief • June 7, 2013
Davis and Northrop v. Clark County, WA, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Incarceration, 2013 Case 3:12-cv-05765-RJB Document 22 Filed 06/07/13 Page 1 of 24 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 7 8 9 LARRY DAVIS individually, and ALAN NORTHROP individually, v. 11 …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
New York Creates “All Crimes DNA Database” by New York has become the first state in the nation to establish a so-called “all crimes DNA database.” Like most states, New York already collects DNA samples from convicted felons. On March 19, 2012, however, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law …
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
Florida DNA Mix-Up Raises Questions about Rapist’s Conviction by When the FBI informed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) that it had a recent “hit” on the DNA of convicted rapist Andrew Lingard, the FDLE realized there was a problem: Lingard had been in prison for the past four …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Ohio Wrongful Conviction Results in $2.59 Million Settlement by On April 25, 2011, Raymond D. Towler, 53, received a settlement of $2,592,571 after serving almost 29 years for a rape he didn’t commit. The award included a $600,000 annuity to provide ongoing monthly payments plus a $1.91 million lump sum …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Federal Bureau of Prisons Says DNA Backlog No Longer Exists by Derek Gilna In July 2011, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced that it had eliminated a backlog of over 90,000 DNA samples from federal prisoners. This milestone occurred more than a decade after Congress passed the DNA Analysis …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Ninth Circuit Holds Prisoners May be Compelled to Provide Blood Samples Under California DNA Act by The Ninth Circuit has held that prison officials may forcibly extract a blood sample from a California prisoner for purposes of compliance with California’s DNA and Forensic Identification and Data Bank Act of 1998 …
Article • November 15, 2011
Feds Can Collect DNA as a Condition of Bail, Ninth Circuit Decides by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample Amendments to the Bail Reform Act requiring a defendant to consent to the collection of DNA before being granted bail do not offend the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for …
Article • September 15, 2011
Fifth Circuit: Texas DNA Testing Motion Tolls Federal Habeas Limitations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 14, 2007, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals ruled that a post-conviction DNA testing motion filed pursuant to Chapter 64 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure (C.C.P.) tolled the one-year limitations …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Supreme Court Allows § 1983 Challenge to Texas Post-Conviction DNA Testing Law by Supreme Court Allows § 1983 Challenge to Texas Post-Conviction DNA Testing Law On March 7, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Texas prisoner could challenge the due process he received under Texas’ post-conviction DNA testing …
$5.25 Million Paid to Former Ohio Prisoner for Wrongful Murder Conviction by The City of Barberton, Ohio has paid $5.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man wrongfully convicted of murder. Clarence Elkins spent almost eight years in prison before being exonerated by DNA evidence in 2005. Elkins …
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