Authorities say 12 women were sexually assaulted in South Carolina over an eight-year span and now a man has been arrested more than a decade since the last crime. Spartanburg police and the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office tell news outlets ...

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DNA submitted to family genealogy sites helped police find and arrest the mother of a baby who was born alive and died abandoned inside a box in a vacant South Carolina field 29 years ago, authorities said Thursday. The DNA ...

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U.S. v. Cowley (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-041-16, 21 pp.) (Dillon, J.) No. 15-6067, Feb. 29, 2016; USDC at Charleston, W.Va. (Copenhaver, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A defendant does not need a Certificate of Appealability in order to appeal denial of ...

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Bagwell v. State (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-103-14, 11 pp.) (James Lockemy, J.) (H. Bruce Williams, J., concurring in part & dissenting in part) Appealed from Greenville County Circuit Court (C. Victor Pyle Jr. & Robin Stilwell, JJ.) S.C. App. Holding: ...

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A man convicted of killing a York County woman in 1981 is again asking for DNA testing that he says might point to the real killer.

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It's now been a year since a Lancaster man was shot and killed on a road in what authorities say was a revenge shooting. But the case has slowed because a backlog at the state crime lab has delayed the completion of DNA tests.

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Likening the practice to fingerprinting, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Maryland law authorizing the warrantless collection of DNA samples from suspects accused of certain serious crimes. The 5-4 ruling in Maryland v. King will affect various laws in more than two dozen other states and the federal government allowing pre-conviction collection of DNA — including Arizona, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, the Carolinas and Virginia.

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WASHINGTON – As they grilled the lawyers arguing before them on the issue of whether police can collect DNA samples from unconvicted arrestees without a warrant, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged just how high the stakes are. “I think this is, perhaps, the most important criminal procedure case that this court has heard in decades,” said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. during oral arguments last week in the case Maryland v. King.

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A man accused in a string of rapes in Charlotte in 1979 has been arrested in South Carolina.

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U.S. v. Summers The government didn’t need “FBI star power” in this open-and-shut drug case, but the trial court didn’t err in admitting defendant’s black jacket and the FBI expert’s DNA analysis to connect defendant to the jacket, and the 4th Circuit affirms defendant’s convictions of drug trafficking and firearms charges.

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