DNA database

SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY PANEL APPROVES MEASURE TO EXPAND STATE’S DNA DATABASE

Release Date: May 15 2008

TRENTON - The Senate Law & Public Safety Committee unanimously approved legislation today sponsored by Senators Nicholas Sacco and Paul Sarlo that would expand New Jersey's DNA database to include those found guilt of disorderly persons offenses.  

"DNA fingerprinting is an invaluable tool that allows our law enforcement community to quickly identify suspects, convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent," said Senator Sacco, D-Bergen and Hudson.  "By expanding it to include those convicted of disorderly persons offenses, we can further bolster the database and provide investigators with new leads into currently unsolvable cases.  This technology has made our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer."

Sacco Praises Use of DNA Database to Reverse False Conviction

Release Date: May 15 2007

NORTH BERGEN - Senator Nicholas J. Sacco, sponsor of the law that created New Jersey's criminal DNA database, pointed to today's news that new DNA evidence convinced a judge to vacate the 20-year-old rape and murder conviction of Byron Halsey as "one example of the power of DNA to find the truth in some of our toughest criminal cases."

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