Multi-State DNA Laws:  The use of DNA [“deoxyribonucleic acid”] as evidence in criminal trials was brought to the public’s intense and graphic attention 20 years ago during the O.J. Simpson trial.  Over the next two decades, its prominence as an evidentiary tool has gained a strong and broad foothold in states’ criminal justice systems because DNA testing in today's forensic genetics laboratories is highly automated, highly reproducible, and the variation detected is capable of potentially matching the DNA profile at a crime scene to one individual in the world with significant statistical probability.  DNA is also very tough stuff – it ... Read More >