Examples of cases where "forensic chemistry" was used?

Answer 1

Goto http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casesummary/index.html

Use the Full-text search to find court cases that match your criteria. The summary below is just one of the many cases I was able to find when searching terms such as forensic and dna.


A capital murder conviction is affirmed where corroboration between the forensic evidence and a letter written by defendant were sufficient to establish aggravating elements of the offense, and various suppression arguments are overruled.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=tx&vol=app/73851a&invol=1

Answer 2

DNA matching is forensic chemistry. Here in NZ it has already been used to convict the guilty and clear the innocent in çrimes committed before it was up and running. Samples were kept in the knowledge that this technology was about to happen.