You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

Advances in technology are transforming criminal justice, but without safeguards, they can also lead to wrongful convictions ...

A stunning turnaround occurred on Friday when — after a third alleged occurrence of prosecutorial misconduct — Judge Marlowe Sommer was finally forced to dismiss all criminal charges with prejudice in ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C (WCIV) — There will soon be a new tool to fight and solve crime across the Lowcountry, with the Tri-County Biological Science Center on Leeds Avenue building unveiled today. The ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A now-former analyst at Houston Forensic Science Center is under the microscope after documents show she allegedly committed evidence processing errors that may impact several ...

A groundbreaking technology - influenced by the boom of public interest in genealogy - is helping solve cold crime cases once believed to be unsolvable. Forensic genetic genealogy is a budding science ...

KPRC2′s Re’Chelle Turner spoke with Defense Attorneys Rick Detoto and Anthony Osso Jr. Both attorneys are former prosecutors who had similar responses on the issue involving the Houston Forensic ...

The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry continues to send ripples through the SA Police Service, this time with the arrest of a ...

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A SAPS Forensic Science Laboratory captain has been arrested in Pretoria by the Commission’s Recommendations Task Team on charges of defeating the ends of justice. Police say the arrest is linked to ...