{"id":5196,"date":"2023-05-04T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/2023\/05\/04\/argentina-realizo-simposio-internacional-el-adn-como-herramienta-de-investigacion-en-casos-penales\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:34:31","slug":"argentina-realizo-simposio-internacional-el-adn-como-herramienta-de-investigacion-en-casos-penales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/2023\/05\/04\/argentina-realizo-simposio-internacional-el-adn-como-herramienta-de-investigacion-en-casos-penales\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina held an International Symposium \u201cDNA AS A RESEARCH TOOL IN CRIMINAL CASES\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Last Tuesday, April 18, 2023, the International Symposium “DNA AS AN INVESTIGATIVE TOOL IN CRIMINAL CASES” was held in the city of Santa Fe, capital of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. The event was led by the GTH DNA Latam team and its “Forensic Justice” campaign for Latin America and coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Fe and the Law School of the National University of Litoral. <\/p>

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The event featured international speakers who provided elements of experience in the global context on the development of DNA databases as a guide for criminal policy in Argentina. Among the experts was Chris Asplen, Executive Director of the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) in the USA. Asplen focused on the experiences of managing and working with an active DNA database from the perspective of a prosecutor and the judicial system. Kevin Mills, Director of GTH DNA Latin America, gave a presentation on the evolution of policies in the region and examples of relevant real cases solved using Forensic DNA. <\/span><\/p>

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Local expert Victor Moloeznick, head of the Investigation Department of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Fe, also participated. He gave a detailed presentation on the bill, its basic principles, the arguments for including certain crimes, and why sampling should be done at the point of arrest and accusation, not just at sentencing.<\/span><\/p>

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The presentations were rounded out by Tim Schellberg, President of GTH DNA. Tim spoke about the global context of DNA, the short, medium and long term gains known to come from such a criminal policy and also the
challenges in discussing the variety of offenses and the length of time for which a State must retain data. <\/span><\/p>

The presentations ended with the intervention of Congressman Juan Mart\u00edn, who presented arguments from the legislative and political point of view in favor of a criminal DNA database necessary to improve criminal prosecution in Argentina.<\/span><\/p>

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Daniela Suarez from GTH DNA and Mar\u00eda Consuelo Mart\u00ed (Director of the AGO Forensic Laboratory) moderated a question and answer session that was presented to the panel on the implementation, regulation and supervision of a criminal DNA database. <\/span><\/p>

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The event was attended by 92 delegates from the Judiciary, Academia, Local Congress, Public Prosecutor’s Office and Police along with members of the local press.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The day before the symposium Kevin Mills and Daniela Suarez from GTH DNA were invited to two live interviews (national radio and state TV), in which they presented a synopsis of the objectives of the symposium and a summary of the work developed by Forensic Justice in Latin America. To watch the interviews we invite you to click on the links below.  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The objective of the event was to open a public debate on the bill on criminal DNA databases prepared by the province of Santa Fe, and to emphasize the importance of this regulatory framework to achieve greater clarification of crimes and reduction of impunity and recidivism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}