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Supreme Court to hear fight over taking DNA from arrested people

Posted: February 3, 2013 at 10:44 am

WASHINGTON On a cold February night three years ago, police in suburban Arlington, Va., received a frantic call. A young woman said her roommate had been abducted at gunpoint by a short, clean-shaven man who sped away in a silver SUV.

At dawn, a motorist spotted the victim in a snowy field near a highway, raped and strangled, but alive. An alert officer, hearing the lookout report, recalled that he'd jotted down the license tag of a silver Dodge Durango whose driver lurked near bars at midnight, leading to the quick arrest of a short, clean-shaven Marine named Jorge Torrez.

Ten years ago, Virginia became the first state to require, upon arrest for a serious crime, a mouth swab for DNA. The sample from Torrez, sent to a state crime lab and entered into the FBI's DNA database, confirmed he was the rapist. A few weeks later a DNA match also led to charges against him in the rape and murder of two girls, ages 8 and 9, in Zion, Ill., where Torrez had gone to high school. Jerry Hobbs, the father of one of the girls, had been in prison for the crimes.

This month, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a privacy rights challenge to taking DNA from people who are arrested. The case could either end the practice or make it the norm nationwide.

Arlington County Deputy Police Chief Daniel Murray says the Torrez case shows the value of taking DNA when someone is arrested for a serious crime. "It's extremely important to quickly identify someone who would be a danger to society if he were on the loose," he said. And in this instance, he said, the DNA match freed an innocent man.

Nationwide, DNA samples are taken from people who are convicted of violent crimes.

Going further, the federal government and 28 states, including California, Illinois and Florida, now take DNA samples from some or all who are arrested but not yet convicted of serious crimes. Besides taking fingerprints, the standard jail booking now often includes taking a DNA swab, which prosecutors say is as simple and painless as brushing your teeth.

Last month, President Obama signed into law the Katie Sepich Enhanced DNA Collection Act, which will help pay the start-up costs for other states to begin testing people who are arrested.

"The whole purpose of this is to find serial rapists and murderers and to get them early to save innocent lives," said Jayann Sepich, a New Mexico mother whose daughter Katie was raped and murdered. Her attacker was arrested several times, but he was not identified until he was convicted of another crime and his DNA was taken.

California prosecutors say arrests for nonviolent crimes, including drug offenses, credit card fraud and burglary, have led them to rapists and murderers, thanks to DNA tests.

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Mitochondrial Genome Assembly based on low coverage 454 data (Vlog #5) – Video

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Mitochondrial Genome Assembly based on low coverage 454 data (Vlog #5)
In todays blog I talk about the mitochondrial genome assembly project I work on together with a bachelor student. We take low coverage sequence data with 90k sequences obtained with a 454 GS Junior system (Roche). As the motochondrial genome of the stonefly Pteronarcys princeps is already available, we use it as a reference genome to assemble our Dinocras cephalotes genome. We use the program blast+ to compare the Pteronacrys genome with our 454 reads. With an R script we export hits that match the MTgenome reference, including the phred quality values for each read. The MT reads of D. cephalotes are assembled and edited with Geneious Pro and regions with sequencing, quality problems or low coverage are resequenced with Sanger sequencing. Feel free to comment if you have questions or feedback = ) http://www.luckylion.de http References: Stewart, JB, Beckenbach, AT (2006). Insect mitochondrial genomics 2: the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a giant stonefly, Pteronarcys princeps, asymmetric directional mutation bias, and conserved plecopteran A+T-region elements. Genome, 49, 815--824.

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Gitmo judge bans government censorship of 9 11 case – Video

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Voltz Technic War with Friends: Censorship (Part 6) – Video

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Monetize Me: Facebook Censorship BUSTED – Video

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Burmese delight in books after censorship relaxed – Video

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Burmese delight in books after censorship relaxed
Burma is holding its first literature festival of recent times, following the country #39;s relaxation of censorship rules. More than 100 authors are attending the Irrawaddy Literary Festival, including Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who was previously held under house arrest

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Ron Paul Movie: His Farewell Speech to Congress – Video

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Epic Ron Paul Obliterates Everyone – Video

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Ron Paul Supporter Russ Millotte Blocked from Taking Elected Position

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Russ Millotte, a Ron Paul supporter elected by the Alaska state Republican Party convention last April as their chairman (to take effect this year), has been blocked from taking control by the existing executive committee.

The Alaska Dispatch's take:

After a couple of hours of back and forth between insurgent party chairman-elect Russ Millette and his supporters, and the members of the party's State Executive Committee, plus an hour or so of the latter huddling in the secrecy of an executive session to consider Millette's future, the committee voted to sack him.

The story details a lot of internal-Alaskan GOP wars and backbiting dating back to the Palin days and culminating in Lisa Murkowski's 2010 write-in victory over Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller, who won an insurgent victory over her in the primaries; many party old guard stuck with Murkowski, not the actual Republican candidate Miller.

By April 2012, [angry Miller fans] had merged with equally unhappy supporters of failed Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul to try to take over the party. They succeeded and elected Millette the new chairman....

Millette was accused of being a crummy fundraiser for the Party during his past 10 months as chairman-elect, and as Finance Chair.

After deliberating on Millette's fate, they emerged from behind close doors to announce that the job of the chairman-elect was to raise money as the finance chair, and noted that Millette flunked what could be considered an internship on the way to the chairman's post.

"He failed to perform his duty as finance chair," said Ruedrich, still a member of the executive committee as of late Thursday night. "Grounds for removal is failure to carry out or perform."

David Nalle of the Republican Liberty Caucus paints it as a pure old guard coup against the new guard Paulites in a Washington Timespiece:

A plan was put forward to hold a hearing on the charges [against Millette] at the installation meeting of the Executive Committee on February 1st. Then, to the surprise of party members who described the action as "a sham" and "a witch hunt," the hearing was moved forward a day so that the new committee members would not yet be seated or have a vote on the accusations.

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