Category Archives: DNA profiling

“New” FBI DNA stats changes likelihood of mismatch frm 1:Billion to 1:100

Posted on September 13, 2015 by csidds

Earlier this year the feds said revamped stats of DNA mixtures would make nary a blip in final crime lab results. Texas DPS found that to be a mega overstatement. The product rule strikes again.  Texas DNA results

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New efforts to ID Pearl Harbor victims, the “excitement of delirium” and other Forensic Notes, some strange others tragic.

Posted on September 4, 2015 by csidds

After a 1947 internment from the battleship Oklahoma, skeletal remains experience new ID attempts.  North Carolina has two newly compensated exonerees. 30 years in prison while innocent of murder. Once again, false confessions prove to be largely coerced from vulnerable … Continue reading →

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Forensic dentist defends the Innocence Project against “Anti Forensic Science” AAFS/ABFO Accuser

Posted on August 31, 2015 by csidds

The California Dental Association Journal, in its July 2015 publication presented a multi contributor article on forensic dentistry. Having good PR for the efforts of largely volunteer dentists doing human identification cases and being trained and available in mass disaster … Continue reading →

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US Army Crime Lab enters the realm of “personal DNA” sequencing looking for hair an eye color

Posted on August 25, 2015 by csidds

Battele Inc’s research leader used to run the FBI DNA nuclear DNA unit. Now his company is coming into the big game of identifying human physical traits from genomic DNA “markers” (ie.e alleles) not used in current criminal science systems. … Continue reading →

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MS Supreme Court remands Howard for new litigation, which is not progress.

Posted on August 7, 2015 by csidds

In response to recent oral arguments, the MS high court just issued this 2015-08-06 order  Howard for a “new evidentiary hearing.” This case has had major prosecutorial bitemark ID junk evidence issues for decades and nearly a ten year effort to get … Continue reading →

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DC crime lab gets ex-FBI lab manager as its new chief.

Posted on July 17, 2015 by csidds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/district-expected-to-name-new-head-of-embattled-dna-lab-officials-say/2015/07/16/e4379528-2bf5-11e5-a5ea-cf74396e59ec_story.html

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FORENSICS: What is a “partial DNA match?” Or, what ARE we talking about here?

Posted on July 9, 2015 by csidds

This blog follows the event of the Albuquerque police using a “partial DNA match” sufficient to hold a man in jail for 17 months.   The news release from New Mexico is vague about what the police are changing in their … Continue reading →

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ABQ PD uses a “partial DNA match” to put the wrong man in jail for 14 months

Posted on July 8, 2015 by csidds

And here is how they got the wrong guy. “After settling a lawsuit, the police department changed its procedure. Officers must now explain how strong the DNA match is for any potential suspect before a judge agrees to issue a … Continue reading →

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Forensics: Is the US military capable of reliably identifying remains from the USS Oklahoma?

Posted on July 3, 2015 by csidds

This is a very sensitive topic as it is about identifying remains of 388 US Navy and Marine Corps personnel killed on the USS Oklahoma during the Pearl Harbor attack by Japanese aircraft in the morning of December 7, 1941. … Continue reading →

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“No preset rules in DNA Forensics”: examples of errors and doubts in DNA casework that juries must tackle.

Posted on July 1, 2015 by csidds

This does not read like CSI Miami. Wait, that one got cancelled. Thank you Jesus. “A 2013 survey by the National Institute of Standards and Technology asked analysts from 108 labs to look at a three-person mixture and determine if … Continue reading →

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