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...Stefan König of the Berlin Association of Lawyers says the case of the phantom Phantom illustrates the risks of basing an investigation solely on DNA evidence. "DNA analysis is a perfect tool for identifying traces," he says. "What we need to avoid is the assumption that the producer of the traces is automatically the culprit. Judges tend to be so blinded by the shiny, seemingly perfect evidence of DNA traces that they sometimes ignore the whole picture. DNA evidence on a crime scene says nothing about how it got there. There is good reason for not permitting convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Phantom Serial Killer: A DNA Blunder | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...publication—stated that in March 2002, Camara had used racial slurs in an outline he made for a first-year property law course, which was posted on an on-line HLS outline bank. Explaining a case regarding racially restrictive property covenants, Camara wrote, “Nigs buy land with no nig covenant; Q: Enforceable?” The new information set off a firestorm at Yale, especially after the Journal’s editors decided not to rescind their offer to publish the article or their invitation to a symposium with the edition’s other...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slur Use Burns HLS Graduate | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...cover. "There's going to be a lot of noise and a lot of splashing going on, just the sort of thing that might annoy a prehistoric lake monster. Or even worse, give it an appetite." Maybe so. But the burden of proof lies with the athlete. Insurer NIG - a division of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group - will pony up only for "injuries that can be proven to be the result of an attack by the Loch Ness monster." That task might prove tougher than the 19-km bike ride and 10-km run that follow the swim. Unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

First-year law student Kiwi A. Camara posted a course outline on a website. In his outline, Camara referred to a case involving restrictive racial covenants by writing, “Nigs buy land w/ no nig covenant; Q: enforceable?” When another student filed a complaint about the post, she received an anonymous e-mail that read, “We are at the Harvard Law School, a free, private community where any member wishing to use the word ‘nigger’ in any form should not be prevented from doing so...I have...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, JASON L. STEORTS | Title: Shades of Offense | 4/26/2002 | See Source »

...Monday HLS deans sent an e-mail to faculty and students condemning the incidents—a web post that used “nig,” an e-mail that defended the use of the word “nigger” and a widely distributed anti-Semitic flier...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Incidents Draw Law School Response | 4/10/2002 | See Source »

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