All Articles tagged DNA testing

• Justice Commentaries
  September 27, 2020 EDT
  APPLYING THE STAMP SAFETY MODEL TO PREVENT FALSE CONVICTIONS BASED ON EYEWITNESS MISIDENTIFICATIONS
  Boaz Sangero

  This article offers ways of reducing the rate of false convictions based on eyewitness misidentifications.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  MY THREE DECADES WITH DARRYL HUNT
  Mark Rabil

  This personal reflection recounts the story of Darryl Hunt, a wrongfully convicted murderer.

• General
  August 08, 2009 EDT
  UNDERSTANDING RACE: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEANING OF RACE IN AMERICAN LAW AND THE IMPACT OF DNA TECHNOLOGY ON ITS MEANING IN THE FUTURE
  William Q. Lowe

  This note discusses the current lack of a settled definition of race in American Law, and the potential role DNA technology can play in remedying the problems associated with it.

• General
  January 01, 2006 EDT
  POSTHUMOUS PATERNITY TESTING: A PROPOSAL TO AMEND EPTL 4-1.2(a)(2)(D)
  Ilene Sherwyn Cooper

  This article argues that there is no sound basis in law or policy that warrants depriving a non-marital child with the right to legitimization through posthumous paternity testing.