108th Congress / Bills / H R 5107

Title

To protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases, and for other purposes.

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Actions and defenses | Administrative procedure | Administrative remedies | Appellate procedure | Armed forces | Authorization | Budgets | Capital punishment | Child sexual abuse | Children | Civil liberties | Compensation (Law) | Compensation for victims of crime | Congress | Congressional investigations | Congressional reporting requirements | Conspiracy | Contempt of court | Correctional personnel | Court records | Criminal courts | Criminal investigation | Criminal justice | Criminal justice information | Criminal procedure | Data banks | Defense policy | Department of Justice | Directories | Disciplining of employees | DNA | Drug abuse | Education | Electronic government information | Employee training | Evidence (Law) | Executive departments | Families | Family services | Family violence | Federal advisory bodies | Federal aid to Indians | Federal aid to law enforcement | Federal aid to research | Federal employees | Federal-local relations | Federal-state relations | Fines (Penalties) | Fingerprints | Firearms | Forensic chemistry | Forensic medicine | Forensic scientists | Fugitives from justice | Government contractors | Government employees | Government information | Government paperwork | Government procurement | Government publicity | Governmental investigations | Higher education | Identification devices | Identification of criminals | Indian law enforcement | Indian women | Indians | Injunctions | Inspectors general | Job training | Judicial officers | Laboratories | Law | Lawyers | Legal aid | Legal education | Legal fees | Legal malpractice | Legal services | Licenses | Limitation of actions | Local laws | Medical care | Medical education | Medicine | Military and naval offenses | Minorities | Missing persons | Murder | Negligence | Nonprofit organizations | Obstruction of justice | Parole | Parties to actions | Performance measurement | Perjury | Physical examinations | Pleas (Criminal procedure) | Police training | Prisoners | Prisoners' rights | Probation | Professional associations | Prosecution | Public contracts | Public defenders | Public prosecutors | Rape | Rape victims | Recidivists | Research and development | Right of privacy | Salaries | Science policy | Sentences (Criminal procedure) | Sex crimes | Social life and customs | Social services | Speedy trial | Standards | State and local government | State laws | Technology | Telecommunication | Toxicology | Victims of crimes | Violence | Women

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