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Author: Yujiemi Chisholm

ME/C Performance Metrics

Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner (ME/C) System Program Fellowship/Purpose Area 1: 64 fellowships funded 49 participants completed fellowship training 11,798 deaths investigated by fellows 12,893 autopsies performed by fellows Accreditation/Purpose Area 2: 148 individuals sought certification 31 individuals achieved certification 15 organizations achieved accreditation
May 2024

COLD Performance Metrics

Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA (COLD) Program Since 2019, COLD Program funds were used to: Upload multiple suspect profiles to Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS/AFIS) Identify 94 suspects who were initially unknown Prosecute 20 cases that have resulted in convictions Identify 39 suspects via Forensic Genetic Genealogy
May 2024

Postconviction Performance Metrics

Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence (Postconviction) Program More than 55,000 new cases reviewed and more than 125,000 continuing cases reviewed with current and previous grant funding More than 740,000 hours of case review performed, representing an estimate of more than 350 work years More than 2,200 cases where DNA analysis
May 2024

Coverdell Performance Metrics

Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants (Coverdell) Program From FY2011-FY2021 Coverdell Program funds were used to: Analyze more than 1.8 million backlogged cases resulting in more than 350 agencies decreasing their backlogged cases Support more than 19,000 forensic personnel, more than 2,000 medical examiners/coroners, and more than 40 pathologists (FY2021 only)
May 2024

MUHR Performance Metrics

Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program Since its inception in 2022, MUHR Program funds were used to: Make 24 identifications via Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) associations Make 13 identifications via direct DNA comparisons Make 21 identifications via other methodologies such as fingerprints Repatriate 39 cases to relatives or
May 2024

CEBR Performance Metrics

DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program More than 1.6 million cases completed More than 3.9 million database samples completed More than 706,000 forensic (crime scene) profiles uploaded to Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) More than 3.7 million databasing profiles uploaded to CODIS More than 341,000 CODIS hits
May 2024
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State of Minnesota v. Michael Carbo (2024) Opinion – Supreme Court of Minnesota

Minnesota Supreme Court ruling held that the defendant in this 1986 homicide prosecution has no reasonable expectation of privacy in semen collected at the crime scene or items discarded in a communal trash bin. However, there are concurring and dissenting opinions to the majority ruling. An additional issue addressed in this ruling pertained to the trial court improperly excluding alternative perpetrator evidence whereby the conviction was reversed and remanded for that reason.
May 2024
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State of Minnesota v. Jerry Westrom (2024) Opinion – Supreme Court of Minnesota

Minnesota Supreme Court ruling held that the defendant in this 1993 homicide prosecution has no reasonable expectation of privacy in a discarded napkin which was retrieved by police, tested for DNA, and led to the generation of a DNA profile that was found to match with a DNA profile recovered from the crime scene.
May 2024
Legal Document Repository

State of Idaho v. David Dalrymple – Case Documents

1) State’s Motion in Limine for Non-Disclosure
2) Memorandum in Support of State’s Motion in Limine for Non-Disclosure
3) State’s Motion to Re-Open Previously Filed and Ruled Upon Motion in Limine for Non-Disclosure
4) State’s Objection and Brief in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Suppress
5) Defense’s Brief in Support of Motion to Suppress
6) Court’s Ruling on Defense Motion to Suppress
May 2024
Legal Document Repository

Court’s Ruling on Defense Motion to Suppress (State of Idaho v. David Dalrymple)

Order denying defense’s motion to suppress genetic information in an Idaho murder-sexual offense case that occurred in 1982. The trial court denied the defense’s motions to suppress citing no reasonable expectation of privacy in hair collected at the crime scene or use of publicly available DNA information contained in genealogic databases. Additionally, the trial court upheld that a DNA sample obtained from the defendant after arrest by means of a search warrant, was lawful, and that the Idaho Constitution does not limit what can be done to a DNA sample that is lawfully collected (e.g., for use in generating a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism [SNP] profile).
May 2024