Re:It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations....
by jyounker on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:12PM
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This seems like a stretch. As far as I know, usually DNA evidence in exonerations is more along the lines of, "The DNA is 98% match for a known killer who was arrested for similar crime a few years later."
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Re:It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations....
by d1sxeyes on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:34PM
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Even that is problematic. A 98% match means there’s a 1 in 50 chance that the sample is not from the person that it’s been matched to. How many cases do you have to cross match with how many felons before you get a false positive? It’s probably not as many as you think, but I don’t have the numbers to do the maths with.
Suggested reading on this topic: https://freakonomics.com/2008/08/are-the-fbis-probabilities-...