The New York Times, July 9, 2010 by AP Terry Collins and Greg Risling
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2010/07/09/news/cops_and_courts/doc4c374625aaa12710003346.txt
”It is legally as low as they could go without acquitting him,” University of California, Berkeley, law school professor Erin Murphy said. Prosecutors had a ”huge hurdle” to overcome in convincing a jury that an officer with a spotless record meant to kill, even with video of the killing, she said.
KQED Forum, July 9, 2010 Host Dave Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201007091000
“Some studies have indicated that in fact strangers could match at nine places commonly. And I think research shows that between siblings you’d see something like 16.7 on average matching…. So, it is actually quite common for people who are unrelated to share these genetic characteristics, which is one of the reasons familial searching isn’t all it might seem on the surface.”
San Jose Mercury News, February 9, 2010 by P. Solomon Banda
http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_14365946?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com
“It makes absolutely no sense,” said Erin Murphy, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “Other than the misfortune of having a relative that has gotten in trouble, there’s no distinction in their likelihood of having committed a crime.”
Contra Costa Times, April 24, 2009 by Marcus Wohlsen
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_12216791?source=rss
“Internal trauma can be telling, especially in a girl this ageֽ because we can make the inference she has not had any recent sexual experience, at least not consensualֽ” said Erin Murphyֽ a criminal law professor at the University of Californiaֽ Berkeley School of Law. At the same timeֽ genital injuries in children can occur during normal childhood activities such as running and jumpingֽ Murphy said.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 24, 2009 by Erin Murphy
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/EDPI163A8L.DTL&type=printable
Given the broad reliance on the accuracy of DNA matches—whether for criminal convictions despite contrary evidence or the recent approval of “familial searches” that comb databases for a perpetrator’s relatives—the government cannot defend its refusal. Neutral, qualified researchers need access to this material to protect the rights of the accused and prevent conviction of the innocent.
-The New York Times, February 20, 2009 by Katie Thomas
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/sports/baseball/21bonds.html?pagewanted=print
Illston’s decision dealt a serious blow to the prosecution’s case, said Erin Murphy, an assistant professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. “I think they can try to package it as prettily as possible, but it is the critical evidence that shows that Bonds used steroids,” she said.
-KQED-FM, Forum with Michael Krasny, February 27, 2009 Host Dave Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R902271000
“One thing about the charges that Bond is being pursued for is that they allow for a conviction, where there are two inconsistent statements that are irreconcilable under oath, without having to prove, necessarily, which one of those two statements are false. So that you don’t need to say, ‘this was true or this was true,’ as long as you can say that someone said under oath two things that were, in fact, inconsistent.”
The New York Times, Nov. 25, 2008 by Michael S. Schmidt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/sports/baseball/25drugs.html?sq=Berkeley&st=cse&scp=8&pagewanted=print
“McNamee handed over the materials, so you don’t need his DNA to link him to them,” said Erin Murphy, a professor of law at University of California, Berkeley, and an expert in forensic evidence. “But you do need his DNA to determine if there is DNA from more than one person” on the items.
The Oakland Tribune, September 30, by Harry Harris and Sean Maher
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_10603809
If the warrants were obtained illegally, the evidence gathered from the searches could be inadmissible in court, said assistant professor Erin Murphy…. “One school of thought is that if a warrant turns up illegal evidence, so be it; it doesn’t matter if the warrant was bad. But one of the major remedies we use to correct police when they overstep their bounds is (to) throw out the evidence,” she said.
Associated Press, April 26, by Jason Dearen
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/france-sends-detectives-for-inquiry-into/n20080426210509990002
“There are a lot of questions that haven’t been answered that could be by looking at his e-mails, or what was he searching for on Google before he died?” she said. “There are all of these kinds of questions, and it’s unfortunate, but as time goes on they are more difficult to answer.”