Evil's Observer #3

[mrg666]

DNA isn't the key to anything and it's not foolproof. It's just another piece of circumstantial evidence that can be manipulated easily by unscrupulos people. It's long been possible to pick up fingerprints and put them down somewhere else. It's even easier to do it with an item that renders DNA.

thats assuming everything is corrupt and note i did say apparently
dna is not circumstantial if you arent paranoid .
so many folk have been executed over the years that were innocent the law was re written for this
absolute certainty is what we have with dna

[diuretic]

thats assuming everything is corrupt and note i did say apparently
dna is not circumstantial if you arent paranoid .
so many folk have been executed over the years that were innocent the law was re written for this
absolute certainty is what we have with dna

I don't assume everything's corrupt, I do know that only a very small proportion of the entire justice system needs to be corrupt for serious damage to be done to an individual.

DNA is circumstantial evidence by its very nature. If it's not direct evidence (eg eyewitness testimony, which by the way, is inherently unreliable) then it's circumstantial evidence. There's nothing wrong with circumstantial evidence. The whole idea of the crimina law is built on probability and inference so circumstantial evidence is as good, if not better, than some forms of direct evidence.

Any system that has a death penalty will kill an innocent person for sure.

There is no absolute certainty with DNA or anything to do with the criminal justice system. It's built, as I said, on probability and inference. DNA is not a magic bullet. It is extremely useful but it's not a panacea.