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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.
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 Cases, Short Tandem Repeat (STR)-DNA Admissibility Court Rulings, STR-DNA Admissibility Appellate Case Law, Mitochondrial DNA 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 Kohberger)

Order on the defense’s motion to suppress genetic information in an Idaho quadruple homicide case that occurred in 2022. The trial court denied the defense’s motions to suppress citing no reasonable expectation of privacy in abandoned property and shared common DNA segments of a relative who uploaded their DNA into a commercial database available to consumers.
February 2025
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Tyrone Harvin v. State of Maryland (2024) Opinion

Appeals Court decision upholding admissibility of using TrueAllele®, a probabilistic genotyping software (PGS), to interpret DNA mixtures detected on items recovered during the investigation of a Maryland sexual assault case that occurred in 2018. 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.
September 2024
FindLaw

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

Minnesota Supreme Court ruling held that the defendant in this 1986 homicide prosecution has no reasonable expectation of privacy in semen collected at the crime scene or items 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 of Minnesota v. Jerry Westrom (2024) Opinion – Supreme Court of Minnesota

Minnesota Supreme Court ruling held that the defendant in this 1993 homicide prosecution has no reasonable expectation of privacy in a discarded napkin which was retrieved by police, tested for DNA, and led to the generation of a DNA profile that was found to match with a DNA profile recovered from the crime scene.
May 2024
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State of Idaho v. David 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
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Court’s Ruling on Defense Motion to Suppress (State of Idaho v. David Dalrymple)

Order denying defense’s motion to suppress genetic information in an Idaho murder-sexual offense case that occurred in 1982. The trial court denied the defense’s motions to suppress citing no reasonable expectation of privacy in hair collected at the crime scene or use of publicly available DNA information contained in genealogic databases. Additionally, the trial court upheld that a DNA sample obtained from the defendant after arrest by means of a search warrant, was lawful, and that the Idaho Constitution does not limit what can be done to a DNA sample that is lawfully collected (e.g., for use in generating a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism [SNP] profile).
May 2024
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State’s Objection and Brief in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Suppress (State of Idaho v. David Dalrymple)

Prosecution’s response to the defense’s claim of Fourth Amendment violation in an Idaho murder-sexual offense case that occurred in 1982. The prosecution attached, as an exhibit, the Minnesota trial court’s ruling on this issue in State v. Westrom. See Minnesota Supreme Court’s opinion in the Westrom Case, which is consistent with the trial court’s ruling here.
April 2024
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Defense’s Brief in Support of Motion to Suppress (State of Idaho v. David Dalrymple)

Defense’s brief in support of the motion to suppress genetic evidence in an Idaho murder-sexual offense case that occurred in 1982. Defense claims that techniques used to generate a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) profile from the defendant’s hair (located and collected from the crime scene) which was then subjected to genealogical search violates the defendant’s Fourth Amendment and the State of Idaho’s privacy rights of a suspect.
April 2024