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Detectives' methods questioned in lawsuit for man later freed by DNA
The 1983 murder of a Broward County woman was so vicious — she was raped, stabbed maybe 40 times, hit over the head with a chair and strangled with wire — that Miramar police said the killer had to have been "mentally unstable." Within hours...
Tags: Lawyers, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Crime, Law and Justice, Chemical Industry, Miramar
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DNA evidence linking another man to murder is admissible in Caravella civil suit, judge says
A federal judge on Monday rejected efforts by lawyers for the City of Miramar and the Broward Sheriff's Office to keep some DNA test results out of evidence in a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Anthony Caravella, who was freed after serving more than...
Tags: Judges, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Chemical Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Miramar
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Man freed by DNA had confessed, but got many details wrong
When Miramar detectives interrogated Anthony Caravella about the 1983 murder of a local woman, the then-15-year-old eventually confessed to the crime. But there were problems with some of his sworn statements – he got many of the important details...
Tags: Lawyers, Chemical Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Miramar, Crimes
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Aberdeen man agrees to extradition in murder case
An Aberdeen man wanted for murder in Chicago has agreed to be extradited to face the charge. Daniel E. Neasom, 29, voluntarily agreed to be extradited, according to court paperwork filed after a Monday court hearing. Tom Schmitt, chief deputy with the...Tags: Chemical Industry, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Police Department
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Biofuel maker Gevo wins round in patent war
Gevo, the company that converted a Luverne, Minn., ethanol plant to make high-value alcohol for chemicals and plastics, declared victory over a competitor on March 21 in the first of 15 patent lawsuits over its genetically engineered yeast and other...Tags: Biofuels, Judges, Genetic Engineering, Litigation, Laws
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Police in Md. holding DNA on people not convicted of crimes
Even as the U.S Supreme Court reviews Maryland's law on police collection of DNA samples, many law enforcement agencies in the state are collecting and holding genetic material from murder victims and people never convicted of crimes. The practices...Tags: Medical Research, Criminal Laws, Wicomico County, Howard County, Baltimore County
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Scientists find new gene markers for cancer risk
NEW YORK (AP) — A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer,...Tags: Medical Research, Chemotherapy, Research, Health Treatments, England
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Why liberals should love Justice Scalia
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of a Maryland law -- similar to one in California -- that requires police to take DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes. Starting with what she obviously...
Tags: Television Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Chemical Industry, Abusive Behavior, Freedom of the Press
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Could extinct woolly mammoth soon be revived using fossil DNA?
Will scientists soon be able to revive the long-extinct woolly mammoth? What about the dodo, the Chinese river dolphin or the saber-toothed cat? With the great technological leaps forward over the past decade, bringing back dead-and-gone species using...Tags: Chemical Industry, Geography, Paleontology, Science and Technology
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DNA, cell phone lead to arrest in South Loop attack
Tribune reporterDNA evidence and a cell phone left at the scene of a home invasion and sexual assault in the South Loop in January led to charges against a 19-year-old Rockford man, Cook County prosecutors said today in bond court. Bond was set at $2 million for...Tags: Theft, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Chemical Industry, Rape
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Supreme Court questions sides in challenge of Md. DNA law
Maryland's practice of collecting genetic information from people arrested — but not convicted — on serious charges took the national stage Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on what Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. called "perhaps the...
Tags: Lawyers, Wicomico County, Samuel A. Alito, Ray King, Laws
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Federal, state officers bust multi-state dogfighting ring
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Federal authorities say they broke up a multi-state dogfighting ring that included training pit bulls to fight in Kansas, Missouri and Texas. Pete Davis Jr. and Melvin Robinson are charged in a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Highway Transportation, Crime, Law and Justice, Chemical Industry, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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