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The murder one scares me. The police and legal system are way to comfortable with using DNA evidence, not understanding the insecurities of it. Danish police h
by mrweasel 2y ago
The murder one scares me. The police and legal system are way to comfortable with using DNA evidence, not understanding the insecurities of it.
Danish police had to reopen over 12,000 cases where DNA evidence was used and redo everything because neither the police nor the judges understood that the tests used an insufficient numbers of DNA markers to uniquely identify a person. Most of the incorrectly identified people was exactly innocent, but people went to jail over drug charges that should have been a warning or a fine.