Category Archives: Transhuman News

Nightcore~DNA
Created using Video Star: http://VideoStarApp.com/FREE.

By: Lpsaligirl

Read this article:
Nightcore~DNA - Video

DNA-Little Mix,Lyrics

By: Amy Elisabeth

Read more:
DNA-Little Mix,Lyrics - Video

Nevada Woman Freed After 30 Years in Prison Thanks to DNA Evidence
DNA suggests the real killer is connected to "Gypsy Hill" deaths.

By: Paul Roy

Read this article:
Nevada Woman Freed After 30 Years in Prison Thanks to DNA Evidence - Video

Reno, Nev. After the case was dropped against a Nevada woman who spent 35 years in prison for a 1976 murder she did not commit, both sides agreed on one point: justice was finally served thanks to new technology in DNA testing.

Cathy Woods became the latest innocent person in the country to be cleared by DNA evidence after prosecutors announced Friday there will be no retrial of her in the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Michelle Mitchell on the edge of the University of Nevada, Reno, campus.

A judge tossed Woods' conviction in September after new DNA tests linked the Reno crime to an Oregon inmate who now faces charges near San Francisco in a string of killings about the same time.

Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks said he didn't fault earlier police, prosecutors and juries for sending Woods to prison because they didn't have "the incredible tool of DNA."

"Whenever we hear about these rare cases where convicted individuals are later exonerated by DNA, it is a circumstance that upsets our society, rightly so," Hicks said at a news conference. "It is also depicted as a strike against our modern day criminal justice system. I would suggest otherwise.

"These exonerations, 30 and 40 years later, show how improved our criminal justice system has become. So as tragic and difficult as this case continues to be, the one shining light is that it shows our modern day system is working," he added.

Woods' public defender, Maizie Pusich, agreed, saying earlier authorities and juries simply lacked DNA evidence.

"I wish it (Woods' exoneration) happened a long time ago, but at least it happened now when she's in relatively good health," Pusich told The Associated Press. "As time goes by, there will be innocent people in prison who slip through the cracks because they won't survive much longer."

Woods, 64, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. She lives in the Southern California home of her brother and his wife, both of whom care for her. She remains under mental health treatment and is "doing well," Pusich said.

She was convicted in 1980 and again five years later. The convictions were based largely on the confession she made in 1979 at a psychiatric hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, where her mother committed her months earlier.

Continue reading here:
DNA testing clears woman after 35 years in Nevada prison (+video)

Reno, Nev. After the case was dropped against a Nevada woman who spent 35 years in prison for a 1976 murder she did not commit, both sides agreed on one point: justice was finally served thanks to new technology in DNA testing.

Cathy Woods became the latest innocent person in the country to be cleared by DNA evidence after prosecutors announced Friday there will be no retrial of her in the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Michelle Mitchell on the edge of the University of Nevada, Reno, campus.

A judge tossed Woods' conviction in September after new DNA tests linked the Reno crime to an Oregon inmate who now faces charges near San Francisco in a string of killings about the same time.

Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks said he didn't fault earlier police, prosecutors and juries for sending Woods to prison because they didn't have "the incredible tool of DNA."

"Whenever we hear about these rare cases where convicted individuals are later exonerated by DNA, it is a circumstance that upsets our society, rightly so," Hicks said at a news conference. "It is also depicted as a strike against our modern day criminal justice system. I would suggest otherwise.

"These exonerations, 30 and 40 years later, show how improved our criminal justice system has become. So as tragic and difficult as this case continues to be, the one shining light is that it shows our modern day system is working," he added.

Woods' public defender, Maizie Pusich, agreed, saying earlier authorities and juries simply lacked DNA evidence.

"I wish it (Woods' exoneration) happened a long time ago, but at least it happened now when she's in relatively good health," Pusich told The Associated Press. "As time goes by, there will be innocent people in prison who slip through the cracks because they won't survive much longer."

Woods, 64, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. She lives in the Southern California home of her brother and his wife, both of whom care for her. She remains under mental health treatment and is "doing well," Pusich said.

She was convicted in 1980 and again five years later. The convictions were based largely on the confession she made in 1979 at a psychiatric hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, where her mother committed her months earlier.

Visit link:
DNA testing clears woman after 35 years in Nevada prison

DNA from former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez and from murder victim Odin L. Lloyd was found on a joint discarded at the scene of the Dorchester mans slaying near Hernandezs North Attleboro home, a crime lab scientist testified yesterday.

Hernandez is on trial for murder in the June 2013 killing of Lloyd.

Diane Fife Biagiotti of the state police crime lab told jurors that she received rolling paper from a 2-inch-long butt end of a joint to test for DNA. She said she found it had the DNA of at least two people on it.

She said she first compared it with Lloyds DNA and discovered he could have been one of the people whose DNA appeared on the butt. She said she then was able to use Lloyds DNA to deduce the second DNA contributor.

I found that the profile from Aaron Hernandez matched the deduced DNA profile, she said.

She then ran a statistical analysis and determined the likelihood it was from someone else is one in more than a quadrillion.

Hernandezs lawyer James Sultan went after other DNA evidence in the case, including some collected from a spent shell casing an Enterprise rental car employee found stuck to some blue bubble gum under the drivers seat of a car Hernandez had rented.

Biagiotti testified she found Hernandez DNA on the shell casing, but she also acknowledged she did not know the gum had been stuck to the shell before she did her test.

Would you agree with me, Ms. Biagiotti, that there is a high likelihood that the DNA contained in the saliva on a chewed blue chewing gum would be transferred to that shell casing? Sultan asked.

Yes, I would agree with that, she said.

Read the original here:
DNA on joint at murder scene matches Hernandez, Lloyd