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Our criminal justice system is best described as a search for the truth. Increasingly, the forensic use of DNA technology is an important ally in that search. The development of DNA technology furthers the search for truth by helping police and prosecutors in the fight against violent crime. Through the use of DNA evidence, prosecutors are often able to conclusively establish the guilt of a defendant. DNA evidence offers prosecutors important new tools for the identification and apprehension of some of the most violent perpetrators, particularly in cases of sexual assault. DNA aids the search for exonerating the innocent.Lets take Dennis Fritz for instance. As mentioned in the article, Innocent, After Proven Guilty by Adam Cohen in the TIME magazine, Fritz was an average father from Oklahoma who led a normal life as a single parent raising his thirteen-year-old daughter. He made a living teaching science to Junior High School students at the time he was convicted of raping and murdering his neighbor, twenty-one-year old Debra Sue Carter. The evidence against Fritz was vague. "He had no eyewitnesses, no evidence linking him to the victim and no credible evidence linking him to the crime scene." But he was misjudged by the odds. W
Whether you advocate capital punishment or oppose it, clearly it's too easy to execute the innocent with our system. Some go as far to say that some irreversible mistakes are worth it. Whatever it takes to keep our kids safe. One journalist recently printed her opinion that the occasional innocent put in jail is a "small matter" when you consider the "larger issue." The obvious question here is: What if your kid pays the price- your husband, brother, sister, wife? Our Constitution, respected by most of the world, was written to protect the rights of the individual. It makes no exception for the District Attorney's career advancement, Judges' ineptitude or politicians agendas. Many have given their lives to protect it. This is no "small matter." Also mentioned in the article, a man by the name of Vincent Jenkins was wrongfully convicted of the rape of a Buffalo, N.Y. woman and served seventeen-years in prison was just released after DNA test had proven him otherwise. Tim Durham, convicted for the rape of an eleven-year-old girl, spent six years in prison until a DNA test had given him a second chance. His case, almost identical to Fritz, had no linking evidence to prove him of this crime. Yet, he paid the price for it. hat he didn't realize is there were other players working against him and found himself in a situation where he had e
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