ACLU Raps 'DNA Dragnet' in Cape Cod Murder Case
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Civil rights advocates Monday urged U.S.  law enforcement officials trying to solve a 3-year-old murder  case to stop asking for DNA samples from male residents of a  Cape Cod community.
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A civil liberties group Thursday filed two federal lawsuits alleging that hundreds of people were illegally arrested during the Republican National Convention.
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An anonymous donor has posted a &#36;100,000 reward for information leading to murder charges in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era &#151; the "Freedom Summer" slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
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By Matt Gryta, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Mar. 8--The attorney for the main suspect in the disappearance of two  elderly Southtowns women complained today about prosecutors using anonymous  "sources" to keep his client jailed on six-figure bail in an unrelated house  burglary.
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Now in its 15th year, the nonprofit has freed more than 200 wrongly convicted people using DNA evidence
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Lawyers for the killer of a Strabane woman have told a court DNA evidence used to link him to his victim is now "questionable".
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A press rights group criticized the U.S. military Wednesday for allegedly attempting to link an attorney for Guantanamo Bay detainees to the suicides of three prisoners, calling it an attempt to shift blame.
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A federal appeals court reversed itself Wednesday and ruled that the government can draw blood from federal parolees for a DNA databank used to investigate crimes -- a decision that dissenters called an invitation to repression.
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Special prosecutors in Colorado said Friday that DNA found on a murder victim does not match the man convicted for her murder. Tim Masters should be freed immediately while he awaits a new trial, they added. The case of the horrific 1987 killing and 1999 trial has pitted cop against cop and raised many questions about whether an innocent man was convicted.
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The national American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday accused the city's black mayor of civil rights violations including racial profiling in his crusade to stem crime in Mississippi's capital city.
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The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government on Monday over what the rights group said was the wrongful deportation of a developmentally disabled U.S. citizen who is now missing in Mexico.
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Who says the Constitution doesn't apply to the Internet?  One of the most controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act took a blow yesterday, courtesy of the ACLU and a federal judge in New York. -washingtonpost.com
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Lawyers for serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph tried to show Thursday that federal agents &#151; not Rudolph &#151; may have spread traces of explosives from a deadly abortion clinic bombing in Alabama to his North Carolina home.
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Court cases that included use of the controversial Low Copy Number DNA testing technique are to be reviewed.
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A federal judge said that tribunals like the one the suspect is facing are contrary to principles of American justice.
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Civil rights advocates asked authorities Monday to stop collecting DNA samples from men in Truro in their investigation of a fashion writer's slaying.
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Saliva from a trash basket where an ex-convict spat contained DNA that matched skin cells from a T-shirt worn by a man accused of raping and torturing a Columbia University graduate student, prosecutors said.