PDEA agents, cops train on handling of evidence.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Personnel of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Crime Laboratory and Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) in Central Mindanao are now fit to handle evidence which is the basic element in filing an airtight case against drug suspects. This was made possible...

Committee studies codification of evidence rules: a new Supreme Court special committee is charged with devising a more convenient organizational scheme for the Illinois rules of evidence.
In an interview shortly before his September swearing-in ceremony, Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald of the Illinois Supreme Court remarked that "having the rules of evidence in a single location, whether rule or statute, would be of enormous value to the practitioner" and indicated his intention to discuss the idea...

Prisoner's letters are focus of pretrial issue; Evidence in '07 shooting or suspect's privacy?
Byline: Gary V. Murray WORCESTER - A prison inmate accused of waging a letter-writing campaign in an effort to intimidate witnesses in a pending shooting case is asking a judge to bar prosecutors from using the letters in question as evidence against him. Nakia D....

Agendia Publishes Direct Evidence That MammaPrint Predicts Benefit of Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer.
Findings Published in Peer-Reviewed Journal, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, and AMSTERDAM, February 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced that a study demonstrating the direct predictive ability of its breast cancer recurrence test, MammaPrint(R), has been published...

Excluding tainted evidence protects the innocent.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Brian Michaels In a Jan. 19 column, Jonah Goldberg, online editor of The National Review, commented on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowly upheld the authority of police to search a man and his vehicle based upon an inactive arrest warrant...

'No evidence of collusion yet'.
The fact-finding body created by Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. will seek an extension of the suspension imposed on seven firms ordered banned by the World Bank Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) for alleged bid rigging pending a deeper investigation into the issue, an official said yesterday. ...

Evidence of Ancient Hot Springs on Mars Detailed in Astrobiology Journal.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) suggest the discovery of ancient springs in the Vernal Crater, sites where life forms may have evolved on Mars, according to a report in Astrobiology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Several...

Picture Perfect: Frost & Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on High Definition Video Surveillance.
Capturing and Storing Detailed Surveillance for the Best Evidence MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Electronics and Security Group at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the North American video surveillance market to be held on Tuesday,...

Garling reports back on public health.
After a 10-month investigation into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals Commissioner Peter Garling has handed down a report that warns of a system at breaking point. During the course of his inquiry Commissioner Garling visited 61 public hospitals, heard evidence from more than 600 people...

Ex-chief kept mum on complaint against officer to protect informant.
Byline: Jack Moran The Register-Guard Correction (published Feb. 12): Front Page: Interim Eugene Police Auditor Dawn Reynolds believed there was insufficient evidence to sustain an allegation that a police detective had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a confidential informant. Reynolds said that some evidence she reviewed did...