Petitioner was convicted in a trial of the sexual assault of his young stepdaughter at her mother’s house. The evidence at issue was a blanket, which the victim claims she spit on and wiped her hands after the defendant forced… Continue Reading →

New Hampshire will likely pass a law in the next year that increases sentencing for fentanyl to that of heroin. Fentanyl accounts for over half the state’s overdose deaths this year. The law will not increase the number of cases that… Continue Reading →

Twenty-five years ago Richmond Mouchon found his grandmother dead in her apartment. This year, he went to his local police station to inquire about the investigation. There he met with an officer who looked into the case and discovered that… Continue Reading →

A bill to establish a forensic lab in the Virgin Islands made it out of committee on Thursday. This bill would call for a forensic lab in the Virgin Islands that would parallel labs in the United States and would match… Continue Reading →

“This Court is presented with a situation in which a defendant repeatedly requested the results of DNA testing; was incorrectly informed that such testing was not yet complete; and was presented with a time-limited plea offer that he accepted upon… Continue Reading →

The Montana State Crime Lab is improving training and bringing on new forensic scientists after last year was marred by staffing shortages and shipping bodies outside of the state to be evaluated. Read more on Montana’s improvements, here.

The team, which specializes in crime scene and airplane crash recoveries, was sought out to assist first responders in recovering bodies from the site of a plane crash in Ohio.

“Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The idea was to build a database of “ballistic fingerprints” to help solve future crimes.” The system… Continue Reading →

A 16-year-old girl was raped at a party and again at her “rescuer’s” home on February 15, 2014. An investigation quickly followed after the victim arrived at the hospital, clearly drugged and battered. Police were able to obtain an eyewitness who… Continue Reading →

Detroit is one of the many jurisdictions with a backlog of untested rape kits. Businesswomen in Detroit, learning about the backlog, quickly rallied around the cause and formed a private organization, Enough SAID (Sexual Assault in Detroit) to fundraise privately,… Continue Reading →