Month October 2015

Researchers at North Carolina State University and Washington State University found that analyzing the right index fingerprint can help determine whether a person is of European or African ancestry. Bifurcations in the Level 2 assessment provided the most differences between the… Continue Reading →

Timothy Scott Bridges was 22 when he was accused of the rape of an 83-year-old woman. He was convicted in 1991 based on testimony from an FBI expert on hair comparison analysis who said that there was a 1 in… Continue Reading →

The petitioner, an individual on Ohio’s death row, is challenging an Ohio law “that blocks defendants in capital cases from appealing a trial judge’s decision on post-conviction DNA decisions to an appellate court.” This law does not exist for individuals convicted… Continue Reading →