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DNA testing
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NY Times Magazine Cover Story Addresses The Effects of DNA Testing on Fatherhood
NY Times: Who Knew I Was Not the Father?, by Ruth Padawer: It was in July 2007 when Mike L. asked thePennsylvania courts to declare that he was no longer…
Health Law Prof Blog
UK Border Agencies Start Pilot Program Using DNA Testing to Prove the Origin of Asylum Seekers Claiming to Be From Somalia
The UK Border Agency came under attack for its proposed plan to use genetics to determine nationality. According to a report in Nature, a pilot project was implemented to confirm…
Sentencing Law and Policy
DOJ reviewing some DNA testing waivers in federal plea agreements
Main October 11, 2009DOJ reviewing some DNA testing waivers in federal plea agreementsThis new article in today's Washington Post, which is headlined "Justice Dept. to Review Bush Policy on DNA…
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
Determining a trust settlor’s “blood descendants”: The lessons of legal history vs. DNA testing
As DNA testing becomes evermore widespread, Florida probate judges and practitioners alike can expect they'll have to grapple with its implications with greater frequency. For example, does DNA testing trump…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Not Innocent Enough: The elusive search for the sufficiently innocent death-row victim”
Main September 5, 2009"Not Innocent Enough: The elusive search for the sufficiently innocent death-row victim"The title of this post is the headline of this Slate article by Dahlia Lithwick, which…
Death Penalty
Will New DNA Testing Free Florida Death Row Inmate David Eugene Johnston, Who Was Set to Die on May 27th?
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
Last Friday, the Florida Supreme Court received the lab report from the state crime lab on the DNA evidence pertaining to the murder of Mary Hammond in 1983, and the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Osborne’s Deference to the States
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The Supreme Court ruled this week in DA's Office v. Osborne that a state prisoner has no Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to access the state's evidence for DNA testing, even where…
Death Penalty
The Controversial New Reality TV Show – “Dallas DNA”
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
Later this month, a new reality-TV show will begin to air on the Discovery channel, called "Dallas DNA." Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is supportive of this new show;…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Interesting (quasi-sentencing?) rulings from the Ninth Circuit
Main April 2, 2008Interesting (quasi-sentencing?) rulings from the Ninth CircuitThanks to fellow bloggers, I see that the Ninth Circuit has released two interesting opinions today in cases that may interest…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
STIs Among Gay Men Often Not Detected
N.Y.Times: Sex Diseases in Many Gay Men Go Unfound, Experts Say, by Lawrence Altman:Many cases of sexually transmitted diseases are escaping detection because gay men are not being tested each…