Should prosecutors be allowed to subpoena a company's DNA database of thousands of people if they suspect it contains a match to a crime suspect?
Mistakes will happen, they'll pick the wrong person up, someone will happen to fit a crime suspect description, but the way the police conduct themselves needs to be extremely professional.
The Israeli case came to light only because Haephrati's former mother-in-law, a writer and radio psychologist, suspected him and notified police after passages from her then-unpublished book--L For Lies, in which a Haephrati-like character is a crime suspect--suddenly surfaced on the Web.
To properly prosecute a suspect for a crime you must not only link that suspect to the victim but also to the crime scene.
Given the number of gamers out there, one would suspect violent crime to increase dramatically along with the increase in gaming.
Mr Whiston also announced Caroline Quentin is to star in a new detective series for ITV1, which he hopes will follow in the footsteps other long-running crime dramas like Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse and A Touch Of Frost.
Investigators searched Condit's Washington apartment Tuesday night, but police officials said he is not a suspect in any crime.
As you heard in that clip, our confused young man who is, at this moment, of course, a suspect in a crime, so we have to be careful what we say about him.
To proceed, the court would need the permission either of the nation where the crime allegedly was committed or the suspect's home country.
The government also contends that most cellphone tracking conforms to a lower legal standard than a search warrant, which requires authorities show probable cause to suspect connection to a crime.
He was "reasonably confident" Jyllands-Posten had been targeted by the suspect, who denies any crime.
As they cart away your computer and everything connected to it, they tell you that you're a suspect in a computer hacking crime.
In a case that's been confusing in how the suspect is connected to each crime, the search warrant documents released Friday in Texas brought some clarity.
An important current approach, known as genetic profiling, involves comparing crime scene DNA with that from a suspect or with a profile stored in a database.
The stop-and-frisk tactic, under which officers stop, question and sometimes frisk people they reasonably suspect of having committed a crime, has been the subject of a civil trial in federal court in Manhattan.
Current practice, which varies widely from one place to another, has been to declare a match if there are somewhere between eight and 16 points of similarity linking a print found at a crime scene and one taken from a suspect.
Detectives identified him as a suspect based on evidence at a crime scene, the victim's descriptions and others.
"There are strong indications he is involved in the crime, " Stein said Monday of the suspect, without divulging details.
The study paves the way for a forensic test that could estimate the hair colour of a suspect from DNA left at a crime scene.
Scientists have developed a forensic test that can predict both the hair and eye colour of a possible suspect using DNA left at a crime scene.
Previously, states throughout the country had a variety of different laws on the books regarding DNA collection with most mandating testing only after a suspect had been convicted of a crime.
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Police are treating Levy's disappearance as a missing persons case and have repeatedly said they are not considering anyone a suspect because there is no evidence of a crime.
It had to be a very serious crime, and there had to be evidence suggesting the suspect was a national of the other country or had come to the attention of its authorities, he said.
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Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of a cyberstalking investigation is the crime scene: Many of the clues are locked up inside the suspect's computer.
Another change is that Britain may now extradite a suspect to a European Union country even if his alleged crime is not illegal in Britain.
On the surface this looks like another roundup of the usual Wall Street suspects involved in a white-collar crime, except for one thing, Ross Mandell is no usual suspect and he is not backing down from this fight.
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Mr Scott argued that evidence showed that detectives always suspected Gilroy of committing a crime - Mr Scott said that they should have told him he was a suspect and cautioned him that he didn't have to answer their questions.
Greater Manchester Police have said that they do not suspect foul play as there were no visible marks on his body to raise suspicions of a crime being committed.
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