DNA Backlog
Judge rules on Delmer Smith evidence in advance of Sarasota trial
SARASOTA -- A judge ruled Thursday on several pre-trial motions in the first trial of home invasion suspect Delmer Smith III.
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Bureau of Prison’s DNA backlog now erased
MANATEE -- The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Wednesday it has caught up with its backlog of DNA from more than 90,000 federal prisoners.
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FBI says backlog of DNA database is now cleared
MANATEE -- A backlog of more than 295,000 federal prisoners’ DNA in an FBI database has been eliminated, according to FBI officials.
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DNA backlog reduced since Briles’ murder
MANATEE — One year ago today, Kathleen Briles was found beaten to death in her Terra Ceia home. For months after he found her body, Dr. James Briles pleaded for information in the murder of his wife.
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Buchanan cites Smith case after DNA vote
MANATEE — Even as the U.S. House of Representatives just approved a bill that offers funding for local law enforcement agencies to collect DNA upon arrest for a wider range of crimes, federal authorities are still struggling with the existing backlog of inmates’ DNA samples that haven...
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PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Public defender: Decision in Smith case was correct
BRADENTON — Public Defender Larry Eger said Monday he is ready to defend in court his office’s decision that it cannot represent murder suspect Delmer Smith III on a murder charge stemming from the killing of Kathleen Briles.
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Attorney dispute stalls murder case
BRADENTON — Finding a defense attorney for indigent murder suspect Delmer Smith III is proving difficult, and has stalled court proceedings in the Kathleen Briles murder case.
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Attorneys address issue of Smith’s race
BRADENTON — A public defender argued Saturday morning in court that murder suspect Delmer Smith III should have a home invasion robbery charge dropped because the victims believed their attacker was black.
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Smith charged in another home invasion
MANATEE — Bradenton police detectives Friday charged murder suspect Delmer Smith III with a home invasion attack last year in which he allegedly hog tied a couple in their Bradenton home and ruthlessly beat them.
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Questions still mount for Briles family
MANATEE — The family of Kathleen Briles has fought to get to the point where they can smile and laugh as they talk about the feisty woman they loved so much and lost to violence, but it doesn’t last.
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PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Briles' son recalls slaying
Curtis Briles had already been to Iraq once with the U.S. Army, and he was preparing for a second tour last August when a shattering call came in the middle of the night to his North Carolina base.
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