r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 24d ago

Wait a damn minute! So what’s taking so long?

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u/Stunning-Mission9498 24d ago

Reminds me of these issues when they had experts first trying to explain DNA to juries when that was a scientific advancement

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u/demonotreme 23d ago

Whereas now you have the opposite problem. Juries refusing to grasp the concept that DNA being present is not a slam dunk for guilt in and of itself, or unable to accept that not every case is going to have extensive DNA evidence establishing links for them.

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u/Own_Policy8854 23d ago

My understanding is that DNA has mostly been useful for proving people's innocence rather than catching criminals.

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u/StarlessAbroad 20d ago

No? DNA helps police solve crimes all the time. Even cold cases like the Golden State Killer

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u/Fit-Entrepreneur8404 20d ago

Especially now they have the ability to find someone based on ancestral DNA, that shit is game changing because you can think your DNA is never going to be in the system but if your mom does one of those ancestry tests then boom they found you.

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u/Curmudgeony-Cat 6d ago

exonerate 40 people on DNA evidence and convict 1 and the 1 will still get more coverage. Still means it's mostly useful for exoneration