DNA testing which can also be label as DNA fingerprinting, DNA profiling and even DNA typing is considered a forensic technique that can be used to identify a person by their characteristics of their DNA. (What is DNA Testing?, 2016). DNA testing was developed in 1985, to identify a suspect and placed that initial suspect at the incident location during the time of the crime. DNA testing have evolve in the past decade that is can be used to study the animal populations. DNA testing can collected sample such as; liquid blood or bloodstains, skin cells, body fuel, urine, semen, fingernails and hair. Since 1985, DNA Testing has advent becoming the most reliable physical evidence at the crime scene which can be used in the justice system to prove
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When an incident occurs and you the investigator have the identified of the suspect, a sample of that suspect DNA will be compared to the evidence from he or she is accused of committing and other cold cases evidence files. There have been cases where the suspect is unknown and all the Crime Scene Investigator has is the biological evidence from the incident, so that evidence would be collected, analyzed and processed to other offender profiles in the DNA database. Now, the DNA database contained other offenders who have been arrested or is currently served time within a prison or jail system for an unrelated crime. (The United State Department of Justice, 2016). There have been cold cases and current case solved by DNA result from people who has already been arrested or is currently in the prison system. On the other hand there been case where the person accused of a crime who is currently in prison on leak of evidence, have been released because that person DNA result did not matched the crime. Depending on the states the crime occur some law and law makers would not release the person from prison even after the DNA result proved that he or she was not the person who have committed the crime. Mostly because of embarrassment that they would have to face because they placed the wrong person in prison with leak of evidence or because of the laws within the state that the incident occurred would not force the inmate …show more content…
Mark Maxson, who was serving life Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet was released from prison on September 27th, 2016. Mr. Maxon was accused of the brutal murder and sexual assault of a six years old boy from Chicago Roseland neighborhood. Since new evidence emerge such as DNA evidence that show Mr. Maxon did not commit the horrible crime to the six years old boy, the Cook County judge throw out the conviction of Mr. Maxon who was wrongfully accused of the crime and had done 25 years in prison for the crime he did not commit. The case had leak of evidence from the start, there was no blood, saliva and hair. Mr. Maxon, was wrongfully accused of the crime with leak of evidence. When DNA testing was done to the six year old boy, a matched returned to a convicted murderer who lived seven block from the where the little boy body was found at the time. The convicted murdered was already in police custody because he failure to register as a murderer. (Schmadeke, 2016). Cases such as Mr. Ricky McGinn, as a totally different story when it come to DNA result. Mr. McGinn, was accused of rape and murder of a Texas sixteen years old girl in 1994. Mr. McGinn was has been accused of murder, rape and molestation before in present incident. During the current case of the sixteen year old Texas girl, who was rape and murder there was evidence such as, a bloody hammer which was found in McGinn vehicle at the time and blood drops on McGinn clothes. In 2000, Mr.
When an incident occurs and you the investigator have the identified of the suspect, a sample of that suspect DNA will be compared to the evidence from he or she is accused of committing and other cold cases evidence files. There have been cases where the suspect is unknown and all the Crime Scene Investigator has is the biological evidence from the incident, so that evidence would be collected, analyzed and processed to other offender profiles in the DNA database. Now, the DNA database contained other offenders who have been arrested or is currently served time within a prison or jail system for an unrelated crime. (The United State Department of Justice, 2016). There have been cold cases and current case solved by DNA result from people who has already been arrested or is currently in the prison system. On the other hand there been case where the person accused of a crime who is currently in prison on leak of evidence, have been released because that person DNA result did not matched the crime. Depending on the states the crime occur some law and law makers would not release the person from prison even after the DNA result proved that he or she was not the person who have committed the crime. Mostly because of embarrassment that they would have to face because they placed the wrong person in prison with leak of evidence or because of the laws within the state that the incident occurred would not force the inmate …show more content…
Mark Maxson, who was serving life Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet was released from prison on September 27th, 2016. Mr. Maxon was accused of the brutal murder and sexual assault of a six years old boy from Chicago Roseland neighborhood. Since new evidence emerge such as DNA evidence that show Mr. Maxon did not commit the horrible crime to the six years old boy, the Cook County judge throw out the conviction of Mr. Maxon who was wrongfully accused of the crime and had done 25 years in prison for the crime he did not commit. The case had leak of evidence from the start, there was no blood, saliva and hair. Mr. Maxon, was wrongfully accused of the crime with leak of evidence. When DNA testing was done to the six year old boy, a matched returned to a convicted murderer who lived seven block from the where the little boy body was found at the time. The convicted murdered was already in police custody because he failure to register as a murderer. (Schmadeke, 2016). Cases such as Mr. Ricky McGinn, as a totally different story when it come to DNA result. Mr. McGinn, was accused of rape and murder of a Texas sixteen years old girl in 1994. Mr. McGinn was has been accused of murder, rape and molestation before in present incident. During the current case of the sixteen year old Texas girl, who was rape and murder there was evidence such as, a bloody hammer which was found in McGinn vehicle at the time and blood drops on McGinn clothes. In 2000, Mr.