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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
With the advances in DNA evidence its getting tougher and tougher to convict an innocent man of a violent crime.
David Milgaard was convicted in a time when there was no scene matching unless seman or blood could be compared to blood type, which was still shaky at the best of times.
I wonder if there are stats showing wrongful conviction/overturned on new evidence stats for any time after say the year 2000.
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I think you watch too much CSI
DNA evidence isn't a factor in the majority of crimes. We're not just talking about rapes and murders here, we're tlaking about all kinds of crimes where definitive proof often doesn't exist.