The False Promise of DNA Testing
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reasonable-doubt/480747/
The subject of the segment was the Houston Police Department
Crime Laboratory, among the largest public forensic centers in
Texas. By one estimate, the lab handled DNA evidence from at
least 500 cases a year--mostly rapes and murders, but
occasionally burglaries and armed robberies. Acting on a tip
from a whistle-blower, KHOU 11 had obtained dozens of DNA
profiles processed by the lab and sent them to independent
experts for analysis. The results, William Thompson, an
attorney and a criminology professor at the University of
California at Irvine, told a KHOU 11 reporter, were
terrifying: It appeared that Houston police technicians were
routinely misinterpreting even the most basic samples.
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