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Article: DNA `Fingerprinting' Comes of Age // Blood Tests Leave Little To Dispute
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 21, 1995
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When John Ray Bonds of the Hell's Angels was accused of murdering
a record store clerk in Sandusky, Ohio, six years ago, prosecutors
claimed they had linked him to the crime through DNA testing of
bloodstains in the victim's van.
The pretrial hearing over this evidence took seven weeks. Peter
Neufeld and Barry Scheck, attorneys for the defense, called in one of
the country's leading population geneticists - Daniel Hartl of
Washington University - to testify that genetic matching was flawed
and unreliable. The prosecution countered with a string of its own
renowned geneticists, and in the end the judge - in a painstaking,
120-page opinion - ruled that the evidence was admissible.
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