European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dan dipping into criminal cases across America by Carla Schnurr Cox news service " i Erti aps the Best known use of Dan Analy Sis is hot in Medicine. It is in the court  m currently 20 state governments including Georgia have enacted Dan identification programs that use technology developed through the genome project. The Georgia Bureau of investigation has the legislature s authorization but no funding yet to set tip a data Bank of Dan samples from convicted sex of fenders that can be compared against Dan evidence taken from a crime scene. The Gid also tests Dan samples from suspects in crimes but that information won t become part of the database. Georgia s data Bank will be restricted to sex of fenders but in Virginia a state with More than 45,000 samples in its repository even White Collar criminals convicted of mail fraud Are Dan fingerprinted. The Obi processes an average of 18 samples each month for use As evidence in sex crimes but Dan fingerprints have been presented in the state s court rooms in Only about 30 cases to Date. Georgia s first trial using Dan evidence was that of a Rockdale county Man convicted of rape in 1989, though Dan evidence had been used previously to gain pretrial guilty pleas from suspects. Genetic evidence has been used in 600 cases nationwide since 1988. That number is expected to in crease after the Fri links the state systems in a National computerized network known As Codis combined Dan Index system sometime this year. In that network Dan files will be kept on convicted offenders and missing persons As Well As an Anonymous database derived from the Dan of volunteers for use in comparison studies. Dan in the courtroom a look at the use of Dan fingerprinting As evidence 1995 or. Alec Jeffreys a British scientist develops a technique called Dan fingerprinting that makes it possible to identify murderers and rapists from blood samples with virtually no Chance of mistake. 1987 Tommy Lee Andrews becomes the first person convicted with Dan fingerprint ing of rape aggravated Battery and burglary. 1900 Timothy Spencer 26, is the first defendant in a . Serial murder ease to be convicted with Dan fingerprinting evidence used at his trials. 1909 Sammie Schuff who spent six months in jail on rape charges was released after pan tests cleared him. 1992 Ricky Hammond convicted in March 1990 of rape despite Dan evidence suggesting he was innocent is freed pending a new trial after spending More than two Yearsin jail. The Dan fingerprinting process i. Cellular Sample hair Wood semen Dan is extracted from samples the a Ray film is developed to make visible the bands pattern which is known As a Dan fingerprint 3. Dan is Cut into fragments by a restriction enzyme a Ray film is placed next to the membrane to detect the radioactive pattern radioactive probe is bound to the Dan pattern on the membrane the negatively charged Ona fragments Are separated into bands in a gel exposed to an electric Field excess Dan p is washed Oft 7. The Dan probe binds to specific Ona sequences on the membrane the Dan band pattern is transferred to a Nylon membrane the radioactive Dan probe is prepared source cell Marc diagnostics Sis w. O. Booher seven years in prison then saved by draw n from Page 5 style hair a full Beard and a Cross Tattoo on his left hand. Callace is s-foot-8, has straight Blond hair and a Goatee he has always kept tightly trimmed and a Liny Cross on his right hand. The Case was weak and prosecutors offered a Deal plead guilty and serve just four More months. Callace s Legal Aid lawyer pressed him to  incensed Callace said no. At the trial the defense failed to. Mention that hair found on the woman s sweater was not Cal laces that eyewitness identification is widely consid ered to be the least reliable form of evidence that another suspect was eliminated after revealing he was circumcised Ca Jace also is circumcised. Her testimony was compelling and the verdict was guilty on All six counts. I had to sit Down Callace said. I turned to my brother and said what s going on Here " Callace s current lawyer Thomas Mcvann is More Blunt Lennie was railroaded. I am sure they put pressure on her. It s a suggestive  in maximum Security in Clinton correctional facility in upstate new York Ca Jace said  16 hours a Day in the tailor shop sewing inmate uni forms. His redemption was to befriend a Jailhouse lawyer in 1989, when Dan testing was becoming More common. The Legal system lacks guidelines even today on How Dan should be reconsidered and Callace s re quest for a test of a semen stain on the woman s Blu jeans was denied. But two years later Charles Dabbs a new York inmate convicted of rape successfully sought a Dan test and was cleared. Suffolk county judge John Vaughn allowed a Pri vate lab to compare the genetic makeup in Callace s blood to Dan in the semen. The test came Bac negative. More than 10,000 Dan tests have been per int 1987 Aboul 30 Pwen of the 6,000-plus Dan tests done by the Fri show there is not a match said John Hicks assistant director in charge of us Laboratory in Washington. New York attorney Barry Scheck predicted there Al be hundreds and hundreds of cases in which cent acts make use of Dan to be freed for crimes they did t  but he warned there s a real need to regulate private Dan laboratories tomake sure they re  Page 6 sunday february 21, 1993