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Article: COURT USE OF DNA 'FINGERPRINTING' CHALLENGED
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 23, 1989
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Scientists from Boston and elsewhere are attacking the
reliability of DNA "fingerprinting" in a New York murder case,
warning that the fast-growing method for identifying criminal
suspects is not as foolproof as its proponents claim.
In testimony during a weeks-long hearing in a Bronx court, the
critics said that sloppy lab work by companies doing the DNA test,
in the New York case and others, raises questions about scores of
convictions or guilty pleas in which the new technology has already
played a role.
It has been used in several trials that led to life sentences,
and, in at least one case, a death sentence.
"We are going to investigate every one of these convictions," ...