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May 20, 2024
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2023-2024 College Catalog
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LA 241 DNA LAW
This course examines the Fourth Amendment concepts of unreasonable search and seizer and the exclusionary rule, and the Fifth Amendment protections, as well as the concept of privacy in the U.S. Constitution, all as applicable to the FBI CODIS database and DNA as evidence. Technical challenges to DNA evidence, based on scientific errors and misapplication of analysis of allelic frequencies in populations, are discussed. Lecture: 3 hours per week. 3 Credits Prerequisites: LA 228 or equivalent, or consent of instructor; BI 110 (preferred) or BI 101 , or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
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