The DNA Fingerprinting Process
DNA fingerprinting is a powerful technology that has taken the criminal justice system by storm, providing what has been claimed to be a “tool of stunning precision, able to link the blood, semen, or hair left at the scene of a crime to a suspect’s DNA.” The trial of O.J. Simpson brought the technology [...]
The World of Illegal Drug Manufacture
The manufacturing of drugs includes such activities as growing marijuana, making crystal meth or crack, making ecstasy pills, cooking cocaine to produce crack cocaine, and making or refining heroin or other narcotics. Mere possession of the chemicals necessary for illegal drug manufacture may lead to an arrest and conviction of the felony of drug manufacturing.
Drug [...]
Fraud Cases and White Collar Criminals
In the U.S. criminal justice system, fraud is the crime or offense of deliberately deceiving another in order to damage them – usually, to obtain property or services unjustly. Lying is only one element of fraudulent behavior. There must also be an intentional misrepresentation of the product’s condition and actual monetary damages must occur.
Fraud is [...]