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DNA in the COURTROOM
A Trial Watcher's Guide
First Edition Copyright 1994
Web Edition Copyright 2000
GeneLex Corporation
2203 Airport Way South #130
Seattle, Washington 98134 USA

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part by any means without permission from the publisher, except for review and the figures and drawings which may be used by the news media with attribution to GeneLex.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coleman, H. C. (Howard C.) 1940-
Swenson, E. D. (Eric D.) 1942-
DNA in the Courtroom A Trial Watcher's Guide / Howard C. Coleman and Eric D. Swenson.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references, glossary and guide to forensic DNA usage by states.
ISBN 09644507-0-4
1. "DNA Fingerprinting." 2. Forensic Science. 3. Scientific
Evidence. I. Title
94-073363
Printed in USA
2 3 4 5

Dedication
This book is dedicated to the tens of thousands of crime victims and their families who have seen their assailants brought to justice, to the thousands of falsely accused who have been exonerated, and to the hundreds of thousands of children who will grow up knowing who their biological parents are...all with the help of DNA testing.

Howard C. Coleman
Eric D. Swenson
Seattle, Washington
December 13, 1994

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to acknowledge the help of forensic scientists, attorneys and law enforcement officials, and others with whom one or both of us have spoken. Individuals who have been especially helpful include Jim Wooley, Ranajit Chakraborty, Kary Mullis, David Kraft, George Clarke, Larry Mueller, Rockne Harmon, Ellen Wijsman, Barry Scheck, Art Harris, Christian Hogan, Jim Crow, Bruce Weir, Susan Herrera, Tim BRADShaw, Fred Leatherman, Randall Libby, Amy Bakken, Mark Prothero, Elizabeth Thompson, George Sensabaugh, Paul Ferrara, Ron Fourney, Carmen Otero, Jack Ballantyne, Eric Buel, John Simich, John Hartman, Roger Kahn, Jim Harrington, George Duncan, Mark Nelson, George Herrin, Chris Tomsey, Victor Weedn, Gerry Schellenberg, Don MacClaren, Susan Narveson, Daniel Koshland, Richard Safferstein, Brian Wraxall, Benjamin Grunbaum, and Bruce Budowle.

Others who helped in producing the book include Brian Lowney, Tom Wahl, Cuong Ong, Allison Garrison, Linda Jorve, Carolyn Anderson, Joyce Blair, Darlene Pulley, Mariann DeTracy, Teresa Johnston, Michael Sherwood, Ann Pace, Fikre Nigusa, Marianne Dawson, Michel Donath, Laura Sandor-Mendoza, Jane Adams, Kathleen Hosfeld, the staff of O1 Publishing, KP Printing, Teresa Aulinskas and Dwight Holloway.

The Authors
Howard C. Coleman is the president and chairman of GeneLex Corporation, the Seattle-based DNA laboratory he founded in 1987. After reading the first reports of "DNA fingerprinting" in British scholarly journals in 1985, Coleman ended his graduate studies in molecular biology to establish a forensic and paternity DNA testing laboratory. GeneLex has become a nationally recognized pioneer in the field. The pH30 testing probe developed by GeneLex is acknowledged to be an industry standard.

Coleman has appeared as an expert witness for both the defense and prosecution in numerous court cases, and has spoken scores of times to forensic science, law, and student groups. He is the author of several scholarly papers on forensic DNA analysis, has patented a DNA testing device, and was the author of a National Institute of Justice grant in 1987 for the forensic applications of DNA methods. This year he was elected a director of the Human Identity Trade Association and has been a guest on Larry King Live, Rivera Live, and the CNN morning news among others. He is currently at work with Eric Swenson on Silent Witness: DNA and Criminal Justice in America, a full-length study of the "DNA Wars" of which the Simpson case may be the last major battle.

Eric D. Swenson, in the last decade, has written or co-authored five books including The Complete Baseball Player, with Dave Winfield (Avon 1990). He has also written more than 80 magazine articles and broadcast 50 commentaries for National Public Radio affiliates in the Northwest. Swenson has taught advanced writing about science and technology, technical writing, and other writing classes at several colleges and universities, including Oregon State University and the University of Washington.