VIRGINIA â The defense for a man accused in the 1986 murder of Nancy Daugherty in Chisholm argued this week that all evidence acquired through DNA database searches should get thrown out of court.
The investigation had led authorities to Michael Allan Carbo, Jr., 53, of Chisholm, who was arrested last summer and charged with Daughertyâs murder after law enforcement said they matched DNA from his trash to compare to samples from the decades old crime scene. But public defender J.D. Schmid maintained in a written motion that the evidence gathered by investigators and Parabon NanoLabs, a private company in the state of Virginia that helped search two DNA databases without warrant or consent from people whose genetic information was disclosed and violated state and federal constitutions.