Litigation
Apr. 27, 2007
DNA Dilemma: Privacy vs. Evidence
Rock Harmon, senior Alameda County deputy district attorney, is trying to sell prosecutors across the state on a DNA search technique, called familial searching, that would give them the results of partial matches.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - When an Alameda County woman was brutally raped in front of her children two years ago, the suspect left genetic evidence that partially matched a man on record in the state's criminal DNA database.
Local authorities believe the man could be related to the perpetrator and want the state's DNA lab to tell them his identity so they ca...
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