Sentences with phrase «dna crime lab»

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Information on anything related to U.S. justice system, including arrest - related deaths, census of jail inmates, national survey of DNA crime labs, surveys of law enforcement gang units, etc..

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When asked by a local news station about his tab, Boren said he only took home $ 400,000 — less than he'd normally charge — and the rest of the money went to mental health experts, crime - scene reconstructors, mitigation investigators (who rarely get hired outside of death penalty cases), and DNA labs.

Investigators in May sent DNA evidence collected at the time of the attack analyzed to the state police crime lab using a cold - case grant, and on Sept..

In a separate study, Goray and colleagues illustrated how easily DNA can transfer within and between items from a crime scene during transport to the lab, in a study involving objects such as used cigarette butts and bloodied knives (Forensic Science International Genetics, DOI: 10.1016 / j.fsigen.2011.03.013).

The show is titled «PCR,» an abbreviation for «polymerase chain reaction,» in molecular biology the technique that finds and multiplies tiny fragments of DNA and is used by crime labs everywhere.

Second, the contamination of the DNA evidence by the crime lab renders it completely unreliable.

Even the much vaunted FBI crime lab, long considered the nation's premier forensic facility, has been rocked by scandal: first in its explosives unit, then its DNA unit, then its comparative bullet - lead analysis unit, and most recently in its hair microscopy unit.

Nobody really knows how many crime lab failures there are because we usually only hear about them when somebody who has been wrongfully convicted of a crime is exonerated through DNA testing.

But, Broward County Sheriff's Office Crime Lab submitted a report that they did not obtain a DNA profile from any of the slides.