Sentences with phrase «by crime labs»

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.

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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.

Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.

Many studies, including one conducted locally by the Suffolk County Crime Lab, have concluded the technology does not work.

Holt and Rakoff noted that many other recommendations for improving forensic techniques that the National Academy of Sciences outlined have been adopted by state and local crime labs and led to the implementation of codes of professional conduct governing forensic laboratories and other practices.

GelSight might find its true home outside the lab, in providing quality control for manufacturers and perhaps helping forensic investigators, since the patterns left on bullet casings by guns, easily visible with the device, can help pinpoint what weapon was used in a crime.

â $ œDexterâ $ follows Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, who is an employee at the Miami Metropolitan Police Departments Crime Lab, but by night is a a self proclaimed psychopath who meticulously murders the very same serial killers he tracks by day.

«One of the cases that stands out was part of a presentation done by a scientist from the Washington State Police crime lab.

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In the game, you join a member of the Las Vegas CSI team, such as Gil Grissom, to help solve crimes by using realistic forensic techniques and lab equipments.

Reporting in the Phoenix - based Arizona Republic newspaper described how 11 DUI cases have been consolidated into one action, questioning «whether a crime - lab technician's decision to bootstrap old software onto a new blood - testing machine in 2009 — and the faulty results that allegedly arose from that decision — has affected evidence handled by Scottsdale's crime lab.»

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.

Such scandals have been occurring with mind - numbing frequency since 1993, when the long - running fraud perpetrated by former West Virginia state police crime lab serologist Fred Zain first came to light.

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Ripple Labs has been fined $ 700,000 by the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in the first successful civil enforcement action against a virtual currency exchange.