Justice and Science: Trials and Triumphs of DNA Evidence Book

Foreword by Janet Reno ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Science in the Courtroom 1

1 The Scientist Becomes a Victim 3

2 A New Prosecutor 9

3 The Transition to DNA Evidence 16

4 The Fight for Acceptance 24

5 A Stranger Rapist and a Murderer: Early Success with DNA Evidence 34

6 A Double-Edged Sword: DNA for and against the Prosecution 44

7 A Child and a Critical Nightshirt 64

8 DNA and a Football Hero Collide 76

9 Back Home in San Diego: An Unusual Rape Case 98

10 When a Match Is Not a Match 108

11 Exonerations, Databases, and STRs 118

12 A National Approach 136

13 The District Attorney's Office Searches for Innocence 146

14 DNA Takes to Television 162

15 The Tragic Case of a Small Child 172

16 A Cold-Hit DNA Match Solves an Old Crime 179

17 Helena Greenwood Revisited 187

Glossary 195

Index 201