Challenges to the admissibility of DNA profiling evidence in criminal trials.
This article presents an overview of the credibility of DNA profiling in criminal trials. DNA profiling does not provide absolute identification but has to be considered as a component of evidence. Apart from being used to help determine guilt it can be used to exonerate suspects.
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Biological Services Branch, State Forensic Science Laboratory, Macleod, Victoria.
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