
AP - Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children including teenagers as old as 17 to be abandoned at state hospitals. The law, approved hours earlier by the Legislature in a 45-3 vote, goes into effect Saturday, and makes Nebraska the 14th state with a 30-day age cap. It had been the only state with a safe-haven law without an age limit.
Whenever I find that DNA testing is being done, I want to know:
What were the DNA tests that were run?
In the CODIS database of Maryland, of fewer than 30,000 profiles, 32 pairs matched at nine or more
loci. Three of those pairs were “perfect” matches, identical at 13 out of 13 loci. Experts say they most
likely are duplicates or belong to identical twins or brothers, but they did not establish that.
A study of the Arizona CODIS database carried out in 2005 showed that approximately 1 in every 228
profiles in the database matched another profile in the database at nine or more loci, that approximately
1 in every 1,489 profiles matched at 10 loci, 1 in 16,374 profiles matched at 11 loci, and 1 in 32,747
matched at 12 loci.
In a recent case against a Murillo-Sosa, a jury was told the match was 5 of 13. They had to say he was not
guilty. SO, what kind of match DID THEY MAKE?
How about doing it right the first time and take the time to get a FULL DNA testing of Y chromosome
DNA and mitochondrial DNA, as well as autosomal (CODIS) DNA?
Is it a mitochondrial DNA test which matches everyone who descended from the same maternal
ancestor in the last 20 generations as THE DEFENDENT(S)? Is it just a "high resolution test" which the
FBI performs or a real full genome sequencing of the mitochondrial DNA?
Is it a Y Chromosome test which matches everyone who has the same paternal lineage for the past 400
years? If so, is it 12 markers, which could be one to fifty percent of the population, or is it a 67 marker
test that can pin it down to a surname?
There may be a way to combine all of these that will resolve the identity to one person, but is what they
have beyond a reasonable doubt unless they do FULL testing?