State Police may hunt for a suspect using kin's DNA
Critics say innocent targeted
The State Police crime laboratory is considering expanding the use of its DNA database to search for close relatives of suspects whose DNA is recovered from crime scenes, a controversial crime-fighting technique that prosecutors say would help them solve more cases but that critics say would target innocent people, many of them members of minority groups. (Full article: 1285 words)
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