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DNA testing
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Ohio Appellate Insights
What’s On Their Minds: Permissibility of Disparate Treatment for Capital Defendants in Postconviction Review of Applications for DNA Testing. State v. Noling.
Update: On December 21, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here. “A non-capital defendant is afforded an appellate review…
EvidenceProf Blog
Court of Appeals of Maryland Finds Res Judicata Shouldn’t Generally Bar Successive DNA Petitions
By Colin Miller
Section 8-201(b) of Maryland's Criminal Procedure Article provides as follows:(b) Notwithstanding any other law governing postconviction relief, a person who is convicted of a crime of violence under § 14–101 of…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Update: New Trial Denied in Prade Case
Douglas Prade, a former Akron Police Captain, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the alleged murder of his ex-wife, Dr. Margo Prade, who was shot and killed…
EvidenceProf Blog
The EDTA Case That May be Even Crazier Than the Steven Avery/”Making a Murderer” Case
By Colin Miller
This is my third in a series of posts about EDTA testing in the Steven Avery/"Making a Murderer" case (prior posts here and here). As I noted in my last post,In 2007,…
ContractsProf Blog
DNA Test Kits, Law Enforcement and TOS
23andme just issued a report that indicates that it has received 4 requests for customer information from law enforcement agencies and the FBI. The company was able to fend off…
The Right Coast
Ex-President Warren Harding’s Love Child Confirmed Through DNA Testing – ABC News
After nearly 100 years of rumors and historical speculation, DNA testing has confirmed that President Warren Harding had a child out of wedlock his only biological child with mistress Nan…
Family Law Prof Blog
DNA Testing in Child Support Cases in GA
By Family Law
From Northwest Georgia News:Rep. Katie Dempsey said...that requiring DNA testing in new child support cases is a way to end wrongful paternity claims prior to legal action.The Rome Republican authored House…
EvidenceProf Blog
Do Not Assume: Court of Appeals of North Carolina Upholds DNA Testing of Discarded Cigarette Butt
By Colin Miller
On March 5, 2010, a victim was raped in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jason Williford soon became a suspect.On 15 April 2010, RPD Officer Gary L. Davis...parked his unmarked vehicle in…
EvidenceProf Blog
The Serial Podcast: What If Neither of Them Did It? Maryland’s New DNA Standard
By Colin Miller
I've posted 26 entries Sarah Koenig's Serial Podcast, which deals with the 1999 prosecution of 17 year-old Adnan Syed for murdering his ex-girlfriend, 18 year-old Hae Min Lee, on January 13, 1999. These…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published This Week
Steven P. Grossman, Using the DNA Testing of Arrestees to Reevaluate Fourth Amendment Doctrine, 49 Valparaiso U. L. Rev. (Forthcoming).Elissa Philip, Learning About Ineffectiveness: Physicians’ Prescription Decisions Regarding Off-Label Drug…