Bengal - first case that fingerprint evidence was used to get a conviction
First case that fingerprint evidence was used to get a conviction
England - first fingerprint admitted to court
United States - first systematic use of fingerprinting; fingerprint all civil service applicants in New York
United States – first fingerprinting of all criminals; state of New York
United States – federal level collecting all fingerprints of inmates at Leavenworth, Kansas
United States - first case that fingerprint evidence alone was used to get a conviction
Italy – blood typing
United States – first disaster that used fingerprints to identify deceased persons; USS Squalis Disaster
England- first DNA test capable of separating individuals based on a technique called Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism by Alex Jefferys
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique by biochemist Kary Mullis. The PCR earned him a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993.
United States – Short Tandem Repeats (STR) in conjunction with PCR work to identify minute or degraded DNA
United States – Y Chromosome-Based tests used to distinguish male DNA on a female victim when the DNA is mixed
United States – mitochondrial DNA testing; when STR testing is not possible; uses DNA from within the mitochondria of the cell
United States – non-human DNA; used on animals or plants; useful in a criminal case when pet hair has been left behind
United States – modern forensics and DNA; including recovering DNA from skin cells left behind after a touch and DNA from a highly-degraded source
United States – first fingerprint 3D Comparator system; it uses scanning Kelvin probes that produce an image like a mountainous landscape. The 3D system is more accurate. This technology is in response to the falsely accused and imprisoned people due t
