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U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 3:31pm neoform

Associated Press -- Disgraced former prosecutor Mike Nifong pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal contempt charges stemming from his failure to turn over complete DNA testing results during the now-discredited Duke lacrosse rape case. If found in contempt, Nifong could.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 4:33pm neoform

FOX News -- A sheriff's criminalist testified that a small amount of genetic material matching Phil Spector's DNA profile was detected on the breast of the actress who was found fatally shot in music producer's castle-like home. However, Steve Renteria said Tuesda.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:28pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn't have committed the attack. An advocacy group said it was the 200th such case. Jerry Miller smiled and the cou.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

FOX News -- A man believed to be responsible for the 1991 rape and strangling of a 14-year-old girl killed himself in prison hours after investigators told him DNA evidence linked him to the unsolved case, authorities said Monday. Derick Moncada, 35, was serving t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Feb 10, 2007 @ 5:50pm neoform

Christian Science Monitor -- Sixteen months after his divorce, Richard Parker made a devastating discovery. A DNA test revealed that his 3-year-old son had been fathered by someone else. Mr. Parker immediately filed a lawsuit claiming fraud by his apparently unfaithful ex-wife. He.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 2:22pm neoform

New York Times -- The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, a vast expansion of DNA gathering that will include hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, by far the largest gro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jan 20, 2007 @ 2:36pm neoform

MSNBC -- In a case that has renewed questions about the quality of Texas justice, a man who spent 10 years behind bars for the rape of a boy has become the 12th person in Dallas County to be cleared by DNA evidence... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 20, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The brother of a man recently charged with a 24-year-old San Jose killing was arrested after a DNA sample he provided to tie his brother to the crime linked him to the rape of an 81-year-old woman, authorities said today. David Leonard Holland, 46, was.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 15, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

Washington Post -- A DNA match, the investigative break that has solved countless cases, gave Montgomery County detectives the evidence they needed last year to charge a convicted felon with raping a woman in 1993. But the county's backlogged DNA lab couldn't produce the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:52pm neoform

FOX News -- Lawyers for three Duke lacrosse players once accused of raping a stripper repeatedly asked District Attorney Mike Nifong to turn over the full results of DNA testing, a lawyer testified Thursday during Nifong's ethics trial. Brad Bannon, who represente.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

FOX News -- Although he asked a private laboratory to test DNA in the Duke lacrosse rape investigation, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong never asked for the final report on his work, the lab's director testified. The results would later show that none o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 4:40pm neoform

FOX News -- Phil Spector's DNA was not found on the gun that killed Lana Clarkson, a criminalist testified Monday, but he suggested it might have been hidden under the large amount of the actress' blood on the weapon. Sheriff's criminalist Steve Renteria, called b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

USA Today -- A former Army cook who spent nearly 25 years in prison for a rape he did not commit is scheduled today to become the 200th person exonerated by DNA evidence, underscoring the quickening pace of overturned convictions, according to the Innocence Project... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 10:24pm neoform

FOX News -- DNA has confirmed that a leg found off the shore of Long Island matches a female torso that washed ashore in Westchester County last month, police said Wednesday. Results from DNA testing on a second leg also was expected to be a match, said Mamaroneck.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 6:15pm neoform

CNN -- DNA evidence ties a rapist to the murders of 10 women and an unborn fetus, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in the trial's opening statements. Chester D. Turner, 40, faces the death penalty if convicted of the murders, which spanned an 11-year period... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 7:00am neoform

FOX News -- A schizophrenic who spent 22 years in prison for rape and was denied parole five times was cleared Monday after DNA evidence linked the crimes to another man. A judge threw out Anthony Capozzi's two 1987 rape convictions at a hearing and Capozzi, 50, i.. Read More