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Innocence Project: Overhaul Death Penalty Laws
HOUSTON (AP) – A leading anti-death penalty lawyer says the execution of a Texas man whose plea for DNA testing was ignored shows procedures and laws covering capital punishment need to be changed....
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Dallas DNA Exonerees Look To Each Other For Support
DALLAS (AP) – When Larry Sims visited a Dallas cemetery to place flowers on his mother’s grave, he was joined by seven men who barely know him and never knew his mother. The men were there because they...
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Court Rules For Texas Inmate Who Wants DNA Testing
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to a death row inmate in Texas who wants to test crime-scene evidence that he says may show he is innocent. The court’s narrow, 6-3...
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Texas Senate Votes To Strengthen DNA Testing
AUSTIN (AP) – The Texas Senate has voted to strengthen prison inmates’ access to post-conviction DNA testing. Texas DNA testing has exonerated about 40 former inmates in recent years, the most in the...
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DNA Tests Link Armadillo To Leprosy
LOS ANGELES (AP) – With some genetic sleuthing, scientists have fingered a likely culprit in the spread of leprosy in the southern United States: the nine-banded armadillo. DNA tests show a match in...
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Dallas Man Freed After DNA Evidence Cleared Him
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A Dallas man who spent 27 years in prison for aggravated sexual assault is free after being cleared by DNA evidence. Johnny Pinchback became the 22nd person exonerated through...
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Texas House Committee Analyzes State’s DNA Testing
AUSTIN (AP) – A Texas House committee is meeting to scrutinize how state DNA testing is performed and consider certifying additional DNA testing centers. The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee has...
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UNT Scientists Help Close Books On John Wayne Gacy Cold Case
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth has cracked a cold-case connected to Chiacgo-area murderer John Wayne Gacy The school’s DNA lab recently identified the remains of...
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DNA Test Deadline Nears For Texas Dads
WYLIE (CBSDFW.COM) – DNA testing has helped to exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners. Now, it’s helping to release men from having to pay child support for children they don’t believe are theirs....
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Man Jailed For Child Support For Baby That Wasn’t His
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – DNA testing has cleared scores of wrongfully convicted inmates in Texas, hundreds across the nation. Now, it’s helping to clear wrongfully accused dads; and, in a Dallas man’s...
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Company Seeks FDA Approval For Personal DNA Test
(credit: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) — Genetic test maker 23andMe is asking the Food and Drug Administration to approve its personalized DNA test in a move that, if successful, could...
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Tarrant County Posts Fewer DNA Exonerations Than Dallas County
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – For most, the exoneration of David Lee Wiggins is a victory, but for Fort Worth attorney Larry Moore, it is an example of what he says is a systemic problem in the justice...
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Plano Apartment Pooch Poop To Be DNA Tested To Clean Up Yard
PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) – Doggie ‘doo’ is apparently enough of a problem in some North Texas apartment complexes that DNA is needed. The Northside at Legacy apartment complex is going to “Poo-prints” to...
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State Bill Would Require DNA Testing For Death Penalty
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas prosecutors would be required to test all biological evidence for DNA before seeking the death penalty under a measure a Democratic state senator proposed Tuesday with...
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State Vows To Contest Ruling For Convicted Killer
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The state plans to challenge a ruling that a man serving two life sentences for two murders can have DNA testing in one case. Roger Fain Jr. was serving a life sentence for...
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New DNA Standards Could Lead To Thousands Of Texas Retrials
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Thousands of old Texas cases could go to trial a second time now that crime labs nationwide have changed the way they analyze DNA...
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DNA Helps Dallas Police Make Arrest In 2007 Murder Cold Case
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – After more than eight years Dallas police have arrested the person they say is responsible for beating Eliazar Flores to death. According to...
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First Virus-Hunter In Space Will Test DNA-Decoding Device
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first virus-hunter in space is all set to conduct some cosmic, new DNA research. Newly arrived space station astronaut Kate Rubins...
View ArticleGenetic Sleuthing Bolsters Food Poisoning Searches
ATLANTA (AP) — Disease hunters are using genetic sequencing in their investigation of the ongoing food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, a technique that is revolutionizing the detection of...
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DNA Databases Testing The Limits Of Privacy
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It could be the end of privacy as we know it. Home DNA testing combined with genetic genealogy means virtually anyone can be identified. The new technology is turning cold...
View ArticleBedford Police Use Kinship DNA Analysis To Solve 1986 Cold Case Murder Of...
BEDFORD (CBSDFW.COM) — After more than 35 years police in Bedford know who murdered Janet Elaine Love in her apartment — now they want to know if her assailant had more victims. It was on April 24,...
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