LOS ANGELES (AP) — A criminalist has told a Los Angeles jury that DNA taken from a former police detective matched saliva from a bite mark on the arm of a murdered woman so closely that no one else on Earth could have produced the genetic match.
Los Angeles Police Department scientist Jennifer Francis, who analyzed evidence in the 26-year-old cold case, on Friday provided the conclusion that bolstered prosecution claims that Stephanie Lazarus murdered her romantic rival.
Francis said the DNA of victim Sherri Rasmussen and Lazarus was found on the bite mark discovered on Rasmussen's body in 1986. The case was reopened after two decades and the science of DNA implicated Lazarus.
She has pleaded not guilty and her lawyer suggests the DNA evidence was corrupted over the years.
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The murder rate among LEO's is higher than normal people.
ReplyDeleteWhen you add in the killing they do on the job the rate soars to 472% higher. Most cops are bad, morally corrupt people.
ANOTHER execution. How many have NOT been uncovered yet? How many have been covered up by other police officers so that we may never know the truth? This year, instead of trumpeting the number of police officers killed in the line of duty (which includes ANY death while on duty, no matter what the cause), I suggest they (the police) publish the number of citizens killed by them. Of course, the obvious question would be could that number be trusted as correct?
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