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Mind over Murder: DNA and Other Forensic Adventures by Batten, Jack
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Book desription: McClelland & Stewart, 1995 Fine/Fine HCDJ. Crisp, clean, tight, no markings. 6.25" x 9.25", 260 pages, illustrations and b&w photos. - The author reveals the forensic science (ink, footprints, food, numbers, blood, hair, semen, and DNA) behind five Canadian crimes and court cases. The route he takes to investigate each piece of forensic science is by way of a particular Canadian trial, and his guides on the route are the detectives, the prosecutors and defence attorneys, and the scientists who actually worked on the cases. He considers the following: Ink analysis, which is used to examine two suspect lines in a police detective’s notebook; footprint casting and identification, which eventually convicts two armed robbers, even though the footprint was left in snow; stomach-content analysis, the controversial method by which time of death was estimated in the Steven Truscott case; forensic accounting, which finally traced and recovered money defrauded from the government of Trinidad, years after it was considered lost; and the analysis of blood, hair, semen, and DNA, which led to Johnny Terceira’s conviction for the murder of Andrea Atkinson. In an epilogue, he looks at recent advances in DNA analysis, as Guy Paul Morin is declared innocent of the murder of Christine Jessop. In his immensely readable prose, he takes us along as the police and the scientists gather and analyse their evidence, as attorneys organize their cases, and as the various groups meet in court to seek out the truth. . Hard Cover.
- Bookseller: Bruce McLeod
 (CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 007274
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0771010664
- ISBN 13: 9780771010668
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
- Date published: 1995
- Pages: 260
- Size: 6.25 x 9.5 x 1 inches
- Weight: 1.2 pounds
- Keywords: Jack Batten, Mind over Murder: DNA and Other Forensic Adventures murder trial of O.J. Simpson can fail to be aware of the importance of forensic evidence in the case. Particularly prominent – and controversial – has been the issue of DNA, the la
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