At 11:58 AM 7/7/03 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: >Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> So the possibility of indicting a cuckolded man on the basis >> of nominal (only) relatives is quite real. > >Only he was convicted because he confessed.
Yes, of course, in this *particular* case. Which is irrelevent. The point is that there are undiscussed evidentiary problems using relatives' DNA, hinging on the assumption that "blood relatives actually share blood", in layspeak.
