Media Articles:

Maryland's DNA Databank

by Stephen B. Mercer and William G. McLain

Nov/Dec 2004
Volume XXXVII Number 6

Maryland Bar Journal Website

Screen Savers

Can Grand Old Theaters survive in the age of multiplex?
Featuring Stephen Mercer
By Dan Gilgoff

U.S. News & World Report Magazine

Media

Sixty Minutes aired a piece titled "A Not So Perfect Match" (Lesley Stahl, correspondent; Shari Finkelstein, Producer; Megan Frank, Assistant Producer) Sunday evening, April 1, 2007. In the segment, Stephen B. Mercer, Esq., was interviewed concerning the privacy and civil rights implications of "near-match" or "familial searching" of convicted felon DNA databases. When there is a close match between DNA collected at a crime scene and a convicted offender profile in the DNA database, you know the person in the database didn't commit the crime, but the near match may suggest that a family member did. The Sixty Minutes story covers the controversy surrounding this new development in DNA databasing and its implications on the rights of all Americans.

November

Man Gets No Added Jail Time in Plea in '93 Killing
By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Stephen B. Mercer was interviewed by the Washington City Paper for Evidently, He's Our Guy, a news story reporting on the controversy surrounding the recent decision to hire the director of the new consolidated forensic crime laboratory:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/21/AR2007112101142.html

The director of the new consolidated forensic laboratory responds to the news story:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=34056

Stephen B. Mercer addresses the director's comments:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/citypaper/mail/

Evidently He's Our Man
The man in charge of D.C.'s crime lab has a storied history elsewhere.
By Arthur Delaney
Posted: October 24, 2007

Judge Overturns Rape Conviction
Disabled Woman Was 'an Exhibit'
By Ernesto Londono

October

CSA reverses rape verdict
Defense had right to question mentally impaired woman
CARYN TAMBER
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer
October 17, 2007

Defense to fight for new trial in 1987 murder case
CARYN TAMBER
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer
October 8, 2007

Adults Being Given Juvenile Protections In Sex Abuse Cases
By Ernesto Londono
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 7, 2007

June

Teacher Is Charged With Sex Abuse of a Second Student
By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 8, 2007; Page B06

May

DNA evidence gets imprisoned man new trial
Examiner.com

De facto segregation at Capitol Hill preschool
TheHill.com

DNA Exoneration Case
The Baltimore Sun.com (registration required)

Corrupt Cops Endanger Montgomery Co. Prosecutions
WUSA9.com
Video available, click here to view.

Lewis Perry, please stand up
TheHill.com

Defense Lawyers Want Names of Suspended Police Officers
Credibility for Active Cases a Worry, Several Say in Request to State's Attorney
The Washington Post

Teacher Charged With Abuse of 12-Year-Old
The Washington Post