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by jessaustin 3387 days ago
I guess the 4yo was lucky the lab identified another suspect... intuitively this sort of error should plague all "dragnet" type DNA "investigations". How would an innocent person defend himself 33 years after a crime was committed? No alibi could survive such a long time. I would have no problems with DNA as one of several pieces of evidence, but by itself I'm going to hang any jury I sit on. This is a good reason to keep one's DNA out of the databases if at all possible.