Scientific evidence and expert witness testimony are integral to criminal trials worldwide. Yet while we live in a scientific age of increasingly specialised expert knowledge, a growing reliance on ...

We’ve all seen the TV cop shows where a wonderful bit of technology allows the police to analyse a criminal’s voice and solve the case. And while the technology doesn’t allow us to do that just yet, ...

Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat (Y-STR) markers are routinely used in forensic casework to identify male donors of biological traces left at crime scenes, particularly in sexual assault cases.

Imagine being summoned as a juror in a murder trial. The expert responsible for analyzing DNA traces at the crime scene has just explained that they match the defendant's profile. "Then the culprit ...

Even as the Supreme Court awaits a forensic analysis of the audio tapes purported to implicate Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh for his alleged role in the State’s ethnic conflict by a government ...