Records published May 20, 2021
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Arrest
WILLMAR A 31-year-old man was arrested Tuesday afternoon following a traffic stop on the corner of Highway 71 and 37th Avenue Northeast.
Man found guilty in 1984 slaying of Minnesota naval recruit in Florida
Thomas Garner, 61, of Jacksonville, was convicted May 6 by a 12-member jury and sentenced to life in prison for strangling U.S. Navy recruit Pamela Cahanes, 25, and dumping her body in an overgrown Seminole County lot.
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Mary Divine / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 12:10 pm, May 18, 2021 ×
ST. PAUL Pamela Cahanes’ siblings waited 37 years for justice for their sister.
They got it earlier this month in a courtroom in Seminole County, Fla., when a jury found a 61-year-old dental hygienist guilty of first-degree murder for beating and strangling of a Stillwater-area woman in 1984.
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Legal Fellow, Meese Center The police did not need a warrant to query the public consumer genetics website, as some privacy advocates and legal scholars have argued. Ashley Cooper / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Police don’t need a warrant to collect abandoned DNA at a crime scene . and don’t need a warrant to query CODIS because it is a government database.
A criminal who leaves his DNA at a crime scene does not have standing under the Fourth Amendment to complain about what a distant relative does with her own DNA.
Law enforcement officials should not be required to obtain a warrant to search third-party genetics websites that allow for public access.
Inside America s cold case revolution: new super effective DNA-matching technique prompts privacy concerns
Investigators are using whole-genome sequencing to search popular ancestry sites with great success, but critics have warned it is unethical
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Inmates at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California. The new technique has helped overturn wrongful convictions and solve cold cases
Credit: Eric Risberg /AP
Convicted killer Ledell Lee protested his innocence up until his death in 2017 by lethal injection at an Arkansas county prison.
Lee was accused of strangling and fatally bludgeoning a 26-year-old woman in 1993, but his prints were never found on the murder weapon and testimony putting him at the scene was later discovered to have been flawed.