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"Abandoned" DNA used by Police

By Smith Law Offices,

Haven't seen this yet but I am sure we will. From the New York Times:The two Sacramento sheriff detectives tailed their suspect, Rolando Gallego, at a distance. They did not have a court order to compel him to give a DNA sample, but their assignment was to get one anyway ? without his knowledge. A letter John Athan was duped into sending to the police led to his arrest 20 years after the slaying of Kristen Sumstad, 13. Recently, the sheriff?s cold case unit had extracted a DNA profile from blood on a towel found 15 years earlier at the scene of the murder of Mr. Gallego?s aunt. If his DNA matched, they believed they would finally be able to close the case. On that spring day in 2006, the detectives watched as Mr. Gallego lit a cigarette, smoked it and threw away the butt...continue to full post

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