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SATI e-News: September 2, 2002
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Boston Crime
Lab Receives Accreditation |
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The following DNA news item has
been reprinted with permission from DNA Legislation & News,
published by Smith Alling Lane, a government affairs firm that
provides nationwide governmental affairs services to Applied
Biosystems:
http://docs.appliedbiosystems.com/hid.taf
The Boston Police Crime Laboratory received national
accreditation (July 1, 2002) as officials launched an
unprecedented effort to identify hundreds of DNA profiles from
sexual assault cases without a suspect. Of the 1,000 sexual
assault cases without a suspect dating back to 1984,
investigators believe they will be able to test 250 for DNA
profiles. The unit has already tested 15 cases and matched
profiles to two convicted sexual offenders and linked four
assaults to the same identified person. The BPD lab has linked
suspects’ DNA profiles from Florida, Maine, Connecticut and
Virginia to crimes in Boston.
“Boston Police Crime Lab Gets Accreditation”, The Boston Herald,
July 2, 2002. |
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