James Duckett, a Mascotte police officer convicted nearly 40 years ago of raping and murdering a little girl, has managed to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Davidson County grand jury has expressed its outrage in a new report surrounding delays in DNA testing for sexual abuse cases in the county. During its latest session, ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. experience sexual violence annually, yet few perpetrators serve time in jail or ...

It comes in the wake of Queensland's DNA testing debacle, which triggered the retesting of forensic samples going back years.

A DNA sample taken from a rape victim in 2003 had no link to a man who was wrongly jailed for 17 years for the attack, a court has heard. Forensic testing for crime scene DNA has improved massively ...

A man acquitted of rape in the Townsville District Court is set to be retried, with public prosecutions applying to the ...

A Srinagar Court Court held that the lapse or omission to carry out DNA profiling, by itself, cannot be permitted to decide ...

A man found not guilty of rape is set to make double jeopardy legal history in Queensland as a result of the retesting of his ...

The Supreme Court recently held that a DNA test may be directed in a paternity dispute even where the alleged father was ...

Top court balances privacy rights against a claimant's quest for identity and inheritance, backing scientific evidence in ...