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How will you feel when your 2nd cousin is convicted of being a murderer based on nothing more than shed skin cells, and your whole family believes their alibi o
by tbyehl 7y ago
How will you feel when your 2nd cousin is convicted of being a murderer based on nothing more than shed skin cells, and your whole family believes their alibi of being with their mother, but the jury doesn't because mothers lie for their children and DNA transference sounds far-fetched?
That's the nightmare scenario of familial matching and government access to / creation of DNA databases.
- oh_sigh 7y agoHow many people have been falsely convicted(or even justly convicted) because their skin cells were found at the scene, with no other evidence?
- tbyehl 7y agoHow would we know? Here's a story of someone who came close and probably would have been convicted had their attorney not credibly identified a source of the transference. https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/ https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/