Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop
by tbyehl on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:21PM
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Aside from human factors, the use of "touch" DNA analysis is absolutely frightening. The presence of someone's DNA at a crime scene is not necessarily evidence that they were ever there.
Unfortunately, there have been multiple cases where it turns out the forensic analysis simply wasn't performed, the technician just put whatever the prosecutor wanted to see on the form.
Easy way around this is double-blinding the evidence. The fact that this isn't done should make DNA evidence inadmissible in court until the relevant authorities clean up their act.