Monthly Archives: May 2013

Bitti reaches Rajasthan for DNA test

By: TheDailyNewsTimes

Read the original here:
Bitti reaches Rajasthan for DNA test - Video

Little Mix DNA- Cover By Zoey G
I was home. I love this song so much. Thanks for watching.

By: Zoey Geuder

Read the original post:
Little Mix DNA- Cover By Zoey G - Video

me singing DNA
singing DNA by little mix :P.

By: Joanna Frank

Read more:
me singing DNA - Video

How DNA is Packaged
DNA animation.

By: afef elissiane

Read more:
How DNA is Packaged - Video

Brianna singing "DNA"

By: ThePopstarprincess22

Read more:
Brianna singing "DNA" - Video

DNA - coffee house escuela bellas artes (Ensamble Coral La
Cover DNA Little Mix.

By: enderlmc

Read more from the original source:
DNA - coffee house escuela bellas artes (Ensamble Coral La - Video

DEMO BATTLES - DNA Vs Mos Prob *FREESTYLE*
DNA_GTFOH Vs @AdamDFelman.

By: DemoBattles

Read the rest here:
DEMO BATTLES - DNA Vs Mos Prob *FREESTYLE* - Video

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) A suburban New York man released from a life-without-parole sentence last summer after new DNA tests cast doubt on his conviction in his wifes killing two decades ago in Vermont is scheduled to be arraigned again on a murder charge.

John Grega, 50, is scheduled to appear in court Thursday in Brattleboro on a charge of aggravated murder in the September 1994 death of his 31-year-old wife, Christine Grega, who was killed in a Dover condominium where the couple and their young son were vacationing.

The hearing is listed as a pretrial conference and an arraignment, but Gregas attorneys have asked that the charges against him be dismissed. Its unclear if the judge in the case will act on the request or any other motions filed in the case.

Last month, Windham County States Attorney Tracy Kelly Shriver filed an amended charge of aggravated murder against Grega, alleging he killed his wife while sexually assaulting and sodomizing her with an unnamed object.

The original affidavit of probable cause, which was refiled along with the amended charge, described how Christine Grega was found in a bathroom after John Grega and their son returned from an outing.

A 2008 change in Vermont law allowed for the retesting of DNA evidence in certain cases. Testing done after that change found DNA of an unknown male on Christine Gregas body.

Prosecutors pursued a theory that the sample had been accidentally contaminated, said Gregas defense attorney, Ian Carleton. As a result 25 to 30 people who were near the crime scene, such as medical personal and police, were tested to see if their DNA matched the sample found on the body.

All those people were excluded as being the source, which strongly suggests that this is DNA from the perpetrator, Carleton said.

Shriver declined to comment, except to say that Grega is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

Grega, who has maintained his innocence from the beginning, was convicted in 1995 of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated murder. The murder conviction was the first time a Vermont defendant was convicted of the charge, which carries an automatic sentence of life without parole.

Read the original post:
NY man released over DNA tests is due in Vt. court

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The lawyer for a Maine man serving two life sentences for the 1999 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and the toddler she was baby-sitting told Maines highest court Wednesday that DNA tests could show somebody else might have committed the killings.

Richard Hartley asked Maine Supreme Judicial Court justices to overturn a lower court ruling denying his request for DNA testing on clothes worn by another man, David Vantol, who claimed responsibility for the killings but later recanted.

Hartley said the tests could show the victims DNA or blood on the clothes, which would benefit his client, 49-year-old Jeffrey Cookson, and cast a new light on his case. Cookson was convicted of killing 20-year-old Mindy Gould and 21-month-old Treven Cunningham in Dexter.

If the DNA tests produced the victims DNA, Mr. Vantols DNA but not Mr. Cooksons DNA, thats an issue I imagine a fact-finder would be curious about and that would raise some eyebrows, he said.

But Assistant Attorney General Donald Macomber said Cookson hadnt met the burden of the law in proving the clothes hadnt been contaminated or altered in the two years they were supposedly buried in the ground. He maintained that Cookson was rightly convicted of the crimes.

The jury found the truth 12 years ago, that Jeffrey Cookson executed these two people, he said.

Cookson was convicted in 2001 of shooting Gould and the young boy in the back of the head while they were lying face down in the bedroom.

Just minutes after the verdict, Vantol confessed to the murders. A short time later, he led police to a gun used in the killings.

Two days later, he gave investigators a trash bag with clothing items, a wig and a hat that he said he had worn during the killings and then buried, two years earlier.

He later changed his story and told investigators Cookson persuaded him to confess to the murders. Cookson in 2004 and 2008 sought to have DNA tests performed on the clothing.

See the original post here:
Convicted Maine killer seeks DNA tests on clothes

15 May 2013 Last updated at 10:13 ET

Europe's first advanced civilisation was local in origin and not imported from elsewhere, a study says.

Analysis of DNA from ancient remains on the Greek island of Crete suggests the Minoans were indigenous Europeans, shedding new light on a debate over the provenance of this ancient culture.

Scholars have variously argued the Bronze Age civilisation arrived from Africa, Anatolia or the Middle East.

Details appear in Nature Communications journal.

The concept of the Minoan civilisation was first developed by Sir Arthur Evans, the British archaeologist who unearthed the Bronze Age palace of Knossos on Crete.

Evans named the people who built these cities after the legendary King Minos who, according to tradition, ordered the construction of a labyrinth on Crete to hold the mythical half-man, half-bull creature known as the minotaur.

Evans was of the opinion that the real-life Bronze Age culture on Crete must have its origins elsewhere.

And so, he suggested that the Minoans were refugees from Egypt's Nile delta, fleeing the region's conquest by a southern king some 5,000 years ago.

"He was surprised to find this advanced civilisation on Crete," said co-author George Stamatoyannopoulos, from the University of Washington in Seattle, US.

View original post here:
DNA reveals origin of Minoan culture