"The potential tragedy that misuse of DNA evidence can cause was illustrated recently when police in Great Britain admitted they misidentified a suspect based on DNA. Although the suspect's DNA matched DNA found at the scene of the crime, the gentleman had an airtight alibi and after additional tests were performed the man's DNA was found to be slightly different. According to "experts" quoted in numerous stories, this was a random problem that has only a 1 in 37 million chance of happening. Unfortunately that claim is nonsense -- because of the way Great Britain utilizes DNA evidence, there is about a 1 in 52 chance of such mismatches happening routinely." . . .

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