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Forensics May Be the Best Defense

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That's the title of an OpEd from the Hartford Courant written by Roger Koppl and Dan Krane.  LINK   Koppl is director of the Institute for Forensic Science Administration at Fairleigh Dickinson University; Krane is professor of biological sciences at Wright State University.  Here are two extended excerpts:A Mississippi judge has recently taken the unusual step of allocating several thousand dollars in county funds so a defendant, accused of murdering a Jackson State University co-ed last November, can hire a forensic expert to examine the evidence in the case, scheduled for trial in September. With forensic evidence - fingerprints, DNA, ballistics, bloodstain patterns, footwear analysis and the like - a significant factor in more and more verdicts, let's hope Judge Swan Yerger's recent action sets a national precedent...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).