Word: dna
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...James Harvey was tried on charges of rape and sodomy. He was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in jail. He has maintained his innocence throughout - but prosecutors refused to allow defense attorneys to test the DNA evidence collected at the crime scene. Until now, that...
...Monday, a federal judge decided that Harvey - and other convicted felons - have a constitutional right to DNA testing. In a fiery 13-page ruling, District Judge Albert Bryan wrote that Fairfax County prosecutor Robert Horan violated Harvey's civil rights when he refused to allow testing on DNA evidence collected for Harvey's trial. "Denying the plaintiff access to potentially exculpatory evidence would result in... a miscarriage of justice," Bryan wrote. If it stands, Bryan's ruling could have staggering repercussions on national criminal law; defense attorneys have long argued that defendants be entitled to post-trial DNA testing, particularly...
...These are wires as thick as your DNA, ten atoms across, that can be made very long," says Lieber. "They are as small as have been made...
...Halverson cited the belief that everything must have a cause and the complexity of DNA, the universe, and other natural phenomena as evidence of a creator...
...Duraiswamy and Kirchhoff were more than happy to debate the fine points of DNA and argued that complexity itself can arise from evolution and is not itself evidence of a creator...