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Supreme Court upholds ‘cold hits’ from state DNA lab
-- Elapsed time does not violate defendant’s right
The crime was committed in 1976, but it wasn’t until 2002 when CSLEA-member Criminalists at the state’s DNA lab made a ‘cold hit’ matching Dennis Louis Nelson to the murder and rape of 19-year-old Ollie George in Sacramento County.
Was this 26-year span, however, during which time witnesses died, memories faded, and evidence was lost, unfair to Nelson’s ability to put together an adequate defense? More... |
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AC-DOJ members solve 31-year-old murder case
-- New technology heating up cold cases
Police had suspected him shortly after the April 22 murder, but had scant evidence to prove anything.
That was in 1977. On Monday, April 21—almost 31 years to the day—Monterey County authorities slapped the cuffs on Louis Augustine Salazar and charged him with first-degree murder shortly after he strolled into the Watsonville Police Department for a scheduled meeting with his probation officers. More... |
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AC-DOJ president and treasurer lobby lawmakers on recruitment-and-retention problem
-- 16 key legislators visited in two-day period
AC-DOJ President John Miller and Treasurer Libby Schreiber blitzed the state capitol this month, knocking on lawmakers’ doors for two solid days to sound the alarm over the recruitment-and-retention problem facing the state Department of Justice’s Crime Lab.
“We were told on multiple occasions that times are tough,” said Miller, “but each time we asked legislators or their top aides to prioritize all the things the state has to consider under these tight budgetary conditions and let us know if the public’s safety ranked some place other than first. More... |
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DNA indexing, Prop. 69 a high priority for new California Department of Justice Division of Law Enforcement director
George Anderson cites “excellent work” of DOJ Criminalists
“We will continue to build upon the excellent work of the Bureau of Forensic Services and implement the mandates for the Combined DNA Index System and Proposition 69.”
With those words, George Anderson, the new director for the Division of Law Enforcement, greeted the public on Aug. More... |
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DPA Moves Up Step Increase Date
The State and CSLEA agreed yesterday to move the step increase date for Criminalists and Senior Criminalists up to March 1st of this year. The Department of Justice requested this move from the Governor’s office due to recruitment and retention difficulties DOJ has been experiencing in filling these classifications. All other classifications in AC-DOJ – LPA’s, QDE’s and PES’s – will receive their step increase on July 1st. More... |
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