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National Technology Validation and Implementation Collaborative (NTVIC) 

The National Technology Validation and Implementation Collaborative (NTVIC) was established in 2022 with a vision to collaborate nationally on forensic science validation, method development, and implementation in the public sector. The group is not associated with any organization, corporation, or non-profit. However, the group is connected with prominent forensic science membership organizations, universities, and private technology and research companies. The NTVIC members are federal, state, regional, and large local forensic science laboratory directors with validation needs and resources. The NTVIC members have a common vision to share existing resources to work together on validation and implementation projects to lessen the burden on individual forensic science and forensic medicine providers to perform the work. Their website contains a list of laws and court cases related to Forensic Genetic Genealogy (FGG).
June 2025
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United Data Connect – DNA Resources

United Data Connect maintains a list of the following DNA Resources: Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Cases, Short Tandem Repeat (STR)-DNA Admissibility Court Rulings, STR-DNA Admissibility Appellate Case Law, Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Cases, DNA Statistical Cases, Non-human DNA Criminal Cases, Postconviction DNA, Forensic DNA Articles, Fourth Amendment DNA Cases, Familial DNA Database Searches, Partial Match DNA Cases, Confrontation Clause DNA Cases, Low Copy Number DNA Cases, STR-DNA Y-Chromosome, John Doe DNA Case Filings Or Warrants, DNA Database Cases, and DNA Arrestee Database Cases.
June 2025
Legal Document Repository

Order on Defendant’s Motion to Suppress Re: Genetic Information (State of Idaho v. Bryan C. Kohberger)

The accused was charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary where four students were found cut and stabbed to death in their residence. After a hearing conducted on the defendant’s motion claiming violations of the Fourth Amendment’s provisions regarding search and seizure, the trial court denied the defendant’s motions to suppress and addressed the following issues in its rulings:
February 2025
Legal Document Repository

Harvin v. State of Maryland (2024) Opinion

Appeals Court decision upholding admissibility of process utilizing TrueAllele®, a probabilistic genotyping software (PGS). This process was used to interpret DNA mixtures detected on several items recovered during an investigation of a sexual assault of an 83-year-old female victim. The Court’s opinion includes a helpful discussion on experts in general, as well as a discussion on the use of PGS for forensic purposes. The Court also discusses the recently adopted Daubert standard in criminal cases. The Supreme Court of Maryland denied petition for writ of certiorari on January 29, 2025 (petition number 355).
September 2024
FindLaw

State v. Carbo (2024) Opinion – Supreme Court of Minnesota

The Supreme Court of Minnesota held that the defendant in this homicide prosecution has no reasonable expectation of privacy in the semen collected at the crime scene or in the items he had discarded in a communal trash bin. However, there are concurring and dissenting opinions to the majority ruling. An additional issue addressed in this ruling pertained to the trial court improperly excluding alternative perpetrator evidence whereby the conviction was reversed and remanded for that reason.
May 2024
FindLaw

State v. Westrom (2024) Opinion – Supreme Court of Minnesota

The Supreme Court of Minnesota held that the defendant in this homicide prosecution has no reasonable expectation of privacy in a discarded napkin which was retrieved by police and tested for DNA leading to a DNA profile that was associated with a DNA profile recovered from crime scene. Other issues addressed in this ruling include: 1) exclusion of alternative perpetrator evidence, 2) exclusion of the defendant’s forensic podiatry evidence, 3) the state’s closing argument was not improper, and 4) circumstantial evidence was sufficient for conviction.
May 2024
Legal Document Repository

Idaho v. Dalrymple – Case Documents

1) State’s Motion in Limine for Non-Disclosure
2) Memorandum in Support of State’s Motion in Limine for Non-Disclosure
3) State’s Motion to Re-Open Previously Filed and Ruled Upon Motion in Limine for Non-Disclosure
4) State’s Objection and Brief in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Suppress
5) Defense’s Brief in Support of Motion to Suppress
6) Court’s Ruling on Defense Motion to Suppress
May 2024
Legal Document Repository

Defense’s Brief in Support of Motion to Suppress (Idaho v. Dalrymple)

Suspect’s hair that was found from the crime scene of a murder-sexual offense case was subjected to single nucleotide polymorphism extraction and genealogical search. Defense claims these techniques violate the defendant’s Fourth Amendment and the State of Idaho’s privacy rights of a suspect.
April 2024

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