Article: STATE OFFICIALS GOING SLOWLY ON DNA TESTING OF SUSPECTS

Article: NEW YORK ADVANCES ON EXPANDING DNA ...
Crime Control Digest;  June 1, 2007 ;     427 words ...New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has reached agreement ... legislative leaders on the need to expand DNA testing to all felons. The Senate overwhelmingly ... preservation of that evidence. Last year, New York adopted a law to expand the DNA databank ...

Article: New York: COMPROMISE INCREASES DNA ...
Crime Control Digest;  July 2, 2004 ;     289 words ... ... George Pataki reached a compromise agreement with legislative leaders to increase the number of felons subject to DNA testing. The agreement adds more than 100 offenses that would require law enforcement to collect a DNA sample. The offenses ...

Article: New York Expands Use Of DNA Testing ...
Crime Control Digest;  December 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ...New York will expand collection of DNA samples from ... addition of as many as 40,000 profiles to New York's DNA database by the end of 2006. The ... criminal justice agencies to determine whether New York could take any additional steps within ...

Transcript: POST-CONVICTION DNA TESTING:ELIOT SPITZER
Congressional Testimony;  June 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... ON POSTCONVICTION DNA TESTING TESTIMONY OF NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ... post- conviction DNA testing and how we should ... of the innocent. New York State is a leader ... post-conviction DNA testing almost six years ago ...

Article: DNA testing: ; Good or bad for justice?
Charleston Gazette;  April 23, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... wholesale move to DNA testing is now. Scheck ... Cardozo Law School in New York has played a prominent ... their innocence with DNA testing," Scheck said ... post-conviction DNA testing, Illinois and New York. That will soon ...

Article: Orchid Streamlines Forensic DNA Testing Facilities ...
PR Newswire;  April 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... efforts to transform its DNA testing operations for greater ... industrialization of forensic DNA testing is our role as an innovator ... the Orchid- proposed New York City BioTracks program ... affordability make forensic DNA testing an increasingly widely ...

Article: Texas Legislature Approves DNA Testing as Recourse ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... before the early 1990s, when DNA testing became routine. Also, they ... to the bill, based on similar DNA testing in New York and Illinois, estimated about ... candidates for post-conviction DNA testing would exercise their option expeditiously ...