DNA evidence combines two of the worst characteristics:
1) Taken as if it's the gospel of God to establish guilt
2) Very easily stolen/taken from a person and planted to a crime scene. Perhaps not for something like DNA found in a pool of blood on a fight scene, or semen at a rape, etc, but anything involving e.g. hair, nails, and other easily obtained body scraps...
As someone from an area of the world that used to have a large "deep state", police routinely planting stuff, and so on, I hate this kind of "proof".
People from Latin America, Africa, certain places in Asia, East Europe, etc will probably identify.
But even in the US, I've read tons of such stories, where the police had it for this or that person and planted evidence. Doesn't even have to be corrupt police, they just might be "certain" that "this n...a did it" without actually having evidence.
1) Taken as if it's the gospel of God to establish guilt
2) Very easily stolen/taken from a person and planted to a crime scene. Perhaps not for something like DNA found in a pool of blood on a fight scene, or semen at a rape, etc, but anything involving e.g. hair, nails, and other easily obtained body scraps...
As someone from an area of the world that used to have a large "deep state", police routinely planting stuff, and so on, I hate this kind of "proof".
People from Latin America, Africa, certain places in Asia, East Europe, etc will probably identify.
But even in the US, I've read tons of such stories, where the police had it for this or that person and planted evidence. Doesn't even have to be corrupt police, they just might be "certain" that "this n...a did it" without actually having evidence.