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A USA, 13 loci , 26 number match
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-dna01.html
DNA links crime to woman with alibi -- she was in jail
November 1, 2004
BY FRANK MAIN AND ANNIE SWEENEY Crime Reporters Advertisement
At first, police thought blood taken from the scene of a North Side
burglary solved the crime because of a DNA match linked to a woman's genetic
profile.
But it turned out the woman had a solid alibi: She was in prison at the time
of the break-in about two years ago, authorities said.
Now, police are working with state officials to see whether there was a
breakdown in the steps leading to the woman's DNA profile being entered into
the database, known as CODIS for Combined DNA Index System.
Investigators are checking whether the state prison system mistakenly put
the woman's name on another inmate's DNA sample. The woman submitted a mouth
swab to state prison officials in May when she was paroled on a drug
conviction, sources said.
Investigators also are looking into the possibility of the Illinois State
Police crime laboratory entering the wrong information into CODIS.
There are other possible explanations, as well.
Robert Hovey, supervisor of the DNA Review Unit of the Cook County state's
attorney's office, said investigators must make sure the blood sample was
directly related to the burglary and that the woman was never inside the
apartment. He cautioned against a rush to any kind of judgment about the
system.
"We don't know if the bloodstain is related to the burglary," said Hovey,
who did not know the details of the case. "But DNA is only going to prove
presence. It is not necessarily going to prove someone committed a crime."
Lincoln Hampton, a State Police spokesman, said the state lab was looking
into the case.
"They are reviewing that case and will present their findings to the Chicago
Police," he said.
The burglary in the 1300 block of West Eddy was among a pattern of about 70
break-ins that police have been investigating.
The case intrigued Kathleen Zellner, a Naperville attorney whose work led to
the exoneration of four men in the 1986 rape and killing of medical student
Lori Roscetti. Zellner sought DNA tests that excluded the men as sources of
semen on Roscetti. Two other men were charged.
"DNA has been the gold standard of evidence," Zellner said. "If you're
implicated, you're sunk, and if you're exonerated, you're home free. But
there are bound to be mistakes. I don't know of anything quite like this."
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Raymond Easton,Swindon,Wiltshire
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/wiltshire/archive/2000/08/15/swindon_news10
ZM.html
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Peter Hamkin,Liverpool
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?object
id=12718961&method=full&siteid=50061
or http://tinyurl.com/9dzd
Gttingen prisoner , Germany
http://213.159.10.102/germany.asp?pad=190,205,&item_id=31550
or as it is now deleted from their archive
http://www.nutteing.dabsol.co.uk/goettingen4.htm
and the story in German
http://www.welt.de/data/2003/05/24/101067.html
Regina v. Watters appeal divulgement ( 3 way match buried in text
two-thirds down )
http://www.forensic-evidence.com/site/EVID/DNA_Watters.html
What they aren't telling you about DNA profiles
and what Special Branch don't want you to know.
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only 14% error rate
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11383690%255E1
702,00.html
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Minister leaps to DNA defence
November 14, 2004
POLICE had implemented changes recommended by the Ombudsman after data entry
errors resulted in discrepancies in almost one in seven DNA samples from
serious offenders, New South Wales Police Minister John Watkins said today.
In a report, the Ombudsman said DNA samples had been named differently in
records by NSW Police and the Division of Analytical Laboratories (DAL).
The discrepancies were found in 14 per cent, or 23 of 164, DNA samples
investigated.
Mr Watkins said today the Ombudsman had found only one "genuine error" in
its investigation of samples taken from serious offenders.
Mr Watkins said the error, in which police entered DNA evidence under the
name of an innocent relative of an offender, could not have led to an unfair
conviction.
He said the samples investigated in the report were taken between January
2001 and July 2002 and procedures had been changed since then.
He said police and DAL now had a "receipts report" to identify and rectify
any discrepancies.
"But I cannot downplay this," Mr Watkins said.
"We need to make sure that the DNA system is as foolproof as humanly
possible because we rely on it in court."
The Ombudsman reported that of the 23 records, 17 related to serious
offenders who had been known to police by a different name and whose details
on police records were that of their aliases.
The Ombudsman recommended NSW Police and the DNA laboratory conducted
internal audits to ensure all information was "consistent and correct".
It also recommended the attorney-general consider setting up an external
overview and accountability for the records.
Mr Watkins said said DNA technology had helped arrest more than 1300 people
in NSW since testing began.
"This technology is catching the most violent criminals, including killers
and rapists, taking them off our streets."
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