Excerpt from Sandra Leans ‘Hidden in plain view’
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The wider public also appears to believe that forensic evidence used at trial is as reliable as it is presented in fictional TV series. For example, a family member of the victim in a particularly high profile murder insisted, post conviction, when a campaign was launched questioning the safety of the convicted person, that there were “strands of [the convicted person‟s] DNA all over the body.‟ When it was pointed out that partial DNA profiles in this case were evidentially worthless (in part because there were not enough “markers‟ present to constitute a reliable match, in part because there were markers common to several potential suspects, and in part because there were several “mixed‟ profiles), this person responded “they can tell even from those bits they did get. They know it was his [DNA.]‟
9292 In the course of a series of threats made against me, this information was imparted, by the family member making the threats, as “justification” for the victim‟s family‟s fury regarding claims of innocence for the person convicted.
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