How accurate is DNA testing for crimes?
DNA evidence has reshaped criminal investigation during the last several decades and helped to solve cases that appeared impossible, as well as to exonerate innocent individuals who were wrongly convicted prior to the invention of DNA testing. The importance of DNA in the criminal justice system has become central to how investigators construct their cases, confirm suspects and prove the facts with the scientific accuracy. But to what extent is DNA testing accurate? How does DNA testing work for crime? And what controls the reliability of DNA testing? Knowing the science of forensic DNA will assist everyone, both the law […]
