{"id":157,"date":"2008-03-12T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/dna-database-evidence-at-trial\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T02:42:57","slug":"dna-database-evidence-at-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/12\/dna-database-evidence-at-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Database Evidence at Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a reminder, it is reversible error in a DNA case for the judge to permit the prosecution, over the objection of the defense, to introduce any evidence that the defendant&#8217;s DNA profile was in a DNA database.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/opinions\/appellatecourt\/2007\/1stdistrict\/april\/1043660.pdf\" title=\"people v. jackson\">People v. Jackson<\/a>, <\/em>865 N.E.2d 195 (1st Dist. 2007). \u00a0This situation comes up mostly in cold-hit cases, where the prosecution seeks to inform the jury that a database hit to the defendant&#8217;s profile occurred.\u00a0 According to the First District Appellate Court, it is error to admit reference to the database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a reminder, it is reversible error in a DNA case for the judge to permit the prosecution, over the objection of the defense, to introduce any evidence that the defendant&#8217;s DNA profile was in a DNA database.\u00a0People v. Jackson, 865 N.E.2d 195 (1st Dist. 2007). \u00a0This situation comes up mostly in cold-hit cases, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}