Sunday, April 25, 2010

DNA Rights And Wrongs

Indian Tribe Wins Fight to Limit Research of Its DNA - NYTimes.com:

"...Acknowledging a desire to “remedy the wrong that was done,” the university’s Board of Regents on Tuesday agreed to pay $700,000 to 41 of the tribe’s members, return the blood samples and provide other forms of assistance to the impoverished Havasupai — a settlement that legal experts said was significant because it implied that the rights of research subjects can be violated when they are not fully informed about how their DNA might be used.

The case raised the question of whether scientists had taken advantage of a vulnerable population, and it created an image problem for a university eager to cast itself as a center for American Indian studies..."

6 comments:

Unknown said...

i want to now what can i do about the police taken my DNA and i wasn't convicted of a crime and now i am not informed about how my DNA might be used Is this illegal DNA testing because i been having problems out of caswell co sheriff dept.

Thank you
Matthew Coles

Unknown said...

Sara Palin .VS. Matthew Coles
Sara palin complain about computer hacker he got lock up. I complain about sheriff dept. hacking into my computer for mouths and i want to know for what. Sara palin say she being watch now and being stalk. I was being watch and stalk and harass and i complain nothing was done about it. But i see you all don't care any thing about me because i am not rich and don't work for the goverment you all ignore me I ask for help about bad policing kicking my door in for what pulls me over with 15 to 20 cars with out a search warrant and search my truck embrass me in front of my neighbors and only give me a child seat belt ticket in a two seated truck they found nothing what was all this for? They pulled me over in a mans yard and the K-9 and the sheriff search my car they didn't find nothing sent us to be strip search didn't find nothing took my car and came in with some crumbs on my console i was set up check the office evidence and court papers. The sheriff pulled me over two or three times like a state trooper and sent me to talk to the D.A. to be judged and sentece by him i was threaten by the same D.A. They held court with out my lawyer, 2009 made me take a DNA test for what i never heard anything else about it Now i hear on T.V. that they cant do this to me because i don't know what they are doing with my DNA I could be getting set up some where because of this negligent. They ignore us disrespect us and being bias and starting a conflict with us I was put in the paper as the biggest drug dealer ask them what did they get. They deframe me and gave me defamation of charter Every time Sara Palin speaks somthing happens senate race Joe Sestak being investigated about a comment he made and Richard Blumenthal mistake wire taping a felony after all of that they made me take a DNA swab test for what i wasn't convicted of no crime can some one please investigate? I wrote letter to the lawyers board Attorney General and the dept. of justice to complain about a lawyer i had. I need help i am poor but i don't need to be forgotten

Bob Harrison said...

You got me. Sounds like a horrible situation. I think I'd start looking for a legal aid attorney.

Unknown said...

What goverment give these accident lawyers and disability lawyers the right to take our money after we been cut and hurt where we can't work and need our money our self because we were in a accident our self and i got a lawyer at crumbly and assioate and this is what the lawyer told me when i asked them how much money was i going to get back and he said your lucky if you pocket anything longs the bills get paid and we get our money. They don't care about us only them self who gives them the rights to act like a virus and take my money and disability lawyer did my friend the same way after his chest was split open why do you have to have a lawyers when some one hurts you we need our own money.

Bob Harrison said...

It isn't right but that is the world we live in. It takes a lawyer to accomplish just about any change to the system. Otherwise, you can run for office and hope to get a platform to voice your grievances that way.

Unknown said...

Does this means Attorney General Roy Cooper is corrupted or have double standerds or is this a illegal use of abusive of power investigating the Alamance sheriff office Why did you write me telling me you don't investigate any one in law enforcement office i wrote congress Brad Miller for help and he told me their was nothing he could do about it because i asked him to investigate caswell co. sheriff office and he wrote me back saying he couldn't do nothing about it now i see this on wxii 12 news they seem bias and didn't want to start a conflict between each other. Does this sound like justice or unjust we need some one from out of north carolina state to come and give us justice and check the law enforcement records behind this people iam going to post this for help.