... lab's error rate, and also the statistical interpretation of the data. There are thousands of cases that DNA evidence has been used to free the innocent, but there some cases that there has been an error in the analysis of the DNA and the wrong person might be punished ... to determine the culpability of criminals is not viable evidence in the courtroom, because of the possibility of human error, of the deliberate manipulation of test results or of just random chance. An example of a DNA evidence error took place in America when various press reports released in early February made ... ...

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... introduced computerized searches of the AFIS data base. Live scan and card scan devices allowed interdepartmental submissions. Also in 1996, Tennessee V. Ware, mitochandrial DNA typing was admitted for the first time in a U.S. Court. In 1998, an FBI DNA database, NIDIS enabled interstate cooperation in linking crimes,was put into ... the very weapon used to free Kotler will be used against him and instead of his lawyers praising DNA testing they will be trying to tear it down. Four years after being released from prison Kotler was charged with another rape and the DNA test matched him to...

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... mistaken to be the rapist, identified by an eyewitness. Chapter two speaks of an invention called PCR. It is referred to as the "DNA fingerprint test (pg.36)." This discovery could be used in criminal investigations to prove the guilty criminal. It explains how before PCR, the most sophisticated way ... to identify a suspect was by blood typing. Unfortunately this technique did not work for Marion Coakley due to the fact that bacteria had eaten away at the DNA, which is a much ... it calls "junk science." Using hair as evidence is an example of what they mean by "junk." The US Judge Fra...

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