Over the years, police, prosecutors and courts had developed crude tests of victim credibility, such as whether a victim promptly reported to the police what had happened to them, was able to give a coherent and chronological account of events and whether they had led a "blameless" life in the sense of not engaging in the abuse of drink, drugs and criminal activity themselves.
Weedn, whose lab has performed some of the most spectacular feats of forensic pathology in recent years, including the identification of most of the Branch Davidians at Waco and some of the passengers aboard T.W.A. Flight 800, which crashed in 1996, has done as much as anyone to increase the public's faith in DNA-based testing of disaster victims.
Brown also did not authorize DNA testing of the victims' fingernail scrapings, or items that could prove Cooper was framed, including a vial of Cooper's blood drawn when he was arrested.
The new law makes it mandatory for doctors to administer pregnancy tests to victims of sexual assault.
Earlier this month the shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, told the Guardian that of all the coalition's cuts to legal aid he was most concerned by the eligibility test for victims of domestic violence.
The spokesman, Dr. Kargar Norughli, said his ministry and the World Health Organization had been testing the blood of victims in 10 mass sickenings and had confirmed the presence of toxic but not fatal levels of organophosphates.
Somewhere in the center, victims' rights groups and feminists have allied to urge speedy DNA testing of evidence taken from victims of rape.
Curiously, no one seems to have run genetic tests to gauge the susceptibility of victims to cancer and other maladies when exposed to environmental toxins.
It was also a test of justice for survivors of victims of femicide, or the extremely violent killings of women by men in circumstances related to a victim's gender.
Peter Siddle was another to succumb bowled attempting a sweep, before Ashwin left Australia on the brink with wickets in consecutive overs, the spinner taking his tally of Test victims to 75.
