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Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin '50-'51 and Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl object to the forensic use of DNA finger-printing, or profiling. They contend that the accuracy claimed by current statistical techniques is overstated.
According to the evidence uncovered last week, most of the victims at Cheiry were shot, and the killer or killers then drove to Granges-sur-Salvan . "Some of the victims at Cheiry had as many as eight bullet wounds in the head," said a forensic expert at the University of...
The grimmest and most convincing is Patricia Cornwell's The Body Farm (Scribners; 387 pages; $23), the fifth adventure of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a gifted forensic pathologist, which means, yes, a performer of autopsies. And a fast hand with panty hose; it's she who tends to the wounded fellow...
DNA fingerprinting, as the process is called, is a complex, high-tech forensic test that can link a suspect to the commission of a crime -- or establish his innocence. While still controversial, use of the tests is gaining widespread acceptance in American courtrooms, including California's. That fact was hardly...
The coroner's foul-up was particularly painful to some in the D.A.'s office who had opposed using deputy medical examiner Irwin Golden to head the coroner's investigation. Citing Golden's reputation for sloppiness, several deputy D.A.s had urged lead prosecutor Marcia Clark to get someone else assigned...