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The term "touch DNA" should not be allowed in the courtroom as it is a misnomer for the transfer of DNA to a surface.

HOW CAN DNA AND FORENSIC EVIDENCE HELP YOU? Imagine you have sent off your DNA to Ancestry.com and find you have a family member who has been an unidentified missing person for decades. Check out this article on how DNA and Forensic Evidence helped identify this missing young boy. He was f...

Reviewing DNA and Forensic Science Evidence Forensic investigations involve gathering and analyzing crime-related physical evidence in order to determine guilt or reach a conclusion in a case. During a forensic investigation, investigators will analyze blood, fluid, fingerprints, and residue to b...

DNA Evidence Can Help or Hurt You DNA evidence is among the most valuable pieces of evidence used in criminal cases. No two people have the same DNA, meaning the use of such evidence can either prove a person's innocence or guilt with great accuracy. While this powerful tool has helped exonerate ...

Last week I was qualified as an expert in Forensic DNA Interpretation in a Louisiana District court. The following video, The Issue #50, addresses why I think this is so important in the criminal justice system, and why I am so excited to make myself available to other attorneys in these very dif...

How DNA is used in an ancestry test. The difference between mitochondrial DNA, genetic code from the male line of your family tree and genetic code form your entire family tree.

Some criminal investigators are now mining DNA data collected through genealogy websites to solve criminal cold cases.  This article states that Darold Wayne Bowden was arrested for a series of rapes that happened over a decade ago.  Agencies are sending unknown DNA samples to a company based out...

This article addresses serious questions in DNA science, but gets the science completely wrong and indicates a much larger issue. If this guy, who hopefully did some research before writing this article, cannot figure out what is going on, how are jurors supposed to do so? First, the analysis of ...

New updated information on fingerprint science and reporting results in courtrooms by the U.S. Department of Justice. Do not let the State or Government offer this of forensic science evidence against you, or your client, without making the reasonable educated challenge to its use and weight. I t...

There is a gross underestimate by criminal justice professionals of the impact on citizens when they are named as suspects. A person can be named a suspect and essentially have much of their life ruined, completely devoid of any due process. The legislature must consider enacting laws to limit th...

The following is a very short article on a couple of forensic science issues in the “Making a Murderer” case. This is by no means an exclusive list of the issues, but issues that kind of which are not often addressed – bias in testing and invalidity of a forensic scientific test. Forensic science...

This article speaks directly to the serious problems with forensic scientific evidence. A serious voir dire of experts offered against your client is in order and attorneys must have a minimum level of understanding of the science to effectively perform this function. “The FBI is reviewing 2,000 ...

The Louisiana Legislature significantly changed the rules on criminal discovery last week by passing house bill 371. ‘Sea change' is a decent way to explain the dramatic shift in the rule of criminal procedure in our code. The defense now has new rights to ask for the following evidence: Statemen...

Cold case investigators arrested a Baton Rouge woman Friday in the 2000 stabbing death of her business partner after DNA testing linked her to the killing, police said.  That statement sounds pretty certain, especially for 2nd degree murder charge. But I would guess that the DNA link, is just tha...

Spent last week an Baton Rouge, had an opportunity to cross examine a DNA expert in a Rape case in the 19th JDC. I have spent the last couple of years studying the DNA texts, mostly written by John Butler, and studying the secondary writings on STR DNA analysis, as well as mtDNA and ySTR DNA anal...

I am at a DWI Defense Seminar in New Orleans this week and weekend; constantly working on be as effective as possible for my clients. This is the best scientific evidence seminar that I know of, and it is my fourth year in a row. I learn how to fight and beat the scientific evidence used in DWI c...

DWI Defense decision in US Supreme Court The US Supreme Court has granted review on a case where a person stopped for DWI was forced, without a warrant, to give blood to the officer. He was found to be over the legal limit and the trial court, at the state level, found that his blood was taken in...