Black and white or red all over? The impropriety of using crime scene dna to construct racial profiles of suspects

Southern California Law Review

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1403-1444

  Quan, Natalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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