searchinGirl
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Yes, CODIS has standards. Which is why the sample was pushed from 9 to 10 in order to get it into the database; with 10 being the minimum required.
For you to say "If the DNA is irrelevant then it needs to come out of CODIS," is blindly naive or sarcastically insulting. We all know that isn't going to happen.
Where are you headed about CU? I see nothing nefarious about it.
I'm sorry I'm not trying to insult anyone, so maybe I should say the DNA being in CODIS is a legal hurdle that would need to be overcome before anyone else could be prosecuted for the crime. And by the way, the number of markers needed for a CODIS sample was reduced on May 1, 2016 to 8 with a rarity match of greater than 10M:1; still learning about that but I believe it has something to do with heritage/race.
I'm not necessarily headed anywhere about CU; but it does appear that the University is the only entity in Boulder that has benefited from the recent media coverage of JonBenet's murder. The building at CU with the project-build space (22,000 sf) is about half a mile from the Ramsey house; and that building was the law school at the time of the murder - just a coincidence but still gets me thinking. Those are a lot of resources to provide an outside entity like CBS without an academic mission, so I suspect the money came through the CU Foundation. Anyway, CU and the DA's office have a close relationship; I suspect pressure could be applied there.