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>Bell cited repeated DNA testing finding that Williams’s fingerprints were not on the knife. Why would DNA testing have anything to do with fingerprints? This
by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Bell cited repeated DNA testing finding that Williams’s fingerprints were not on the knife.
Why would DNA testing have anything to do with fingerprints?
This is like using pylint to look for errors in your FORTRAN code.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Why would DNA testing have anything to do with fingerprints? Just the Guardian being the Guardian. Fortunately, they link to their source which states "three DNA experts examined testing from the knife 'and each has independently concluded that Mr. Williams is excluded as the source of the male DNA on the handle of the murder weapon'" [1]. [1] https://apnews.com/article/missouri-death-row-inmate-dna-evidence-0a179b0aafb1a0c0a3e144f7e3592a62 https://apnews.com/article/missouri-death-row-inmate-dna-evi...
- shiroiushi 2y agoThanks for that. Wow, that's some shoddy journalism: does the Guardian writer not know the difference between DNA and fingerprints?
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoApparently "staff with the prosecutors’ office had mishandled the weapon after the killing – touching it without gloves before the trial," which "made it impossible to determine if Williams’s fingerprints could have been on the knife earlier." Looks like wires getting crossed and nobody editing. (Of course, that comes from the same Guardian article.)
- aaplok 2y agoMaybe a clumsy attempt at referring to DNA fingerprinting [0]? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling