"Samples could be accidentally switched or mislabeled- any number of things might happen. As a result of all this an innocent person might be convicted of a crime (Tucker 581)." Tucker believes that the only problem with DNA testing is that false positives could send an innocent person to jail. Everyday on the news or in the newspaper

Dorothy Nelkin said it correctly in her article "The Grandiose Claims of Geneticists." She stated that scientists damage an investigation and trial when they use "overblown rhetoric and misleading metaphors to convey the importance of their work (Nelkin 525)." The big words and misleading phrases that scientists use misleads jurors and therefore they are unable to make an educated and responsible decision based on the facts. They are confused by the testimony and heavily rely on it to either convict or acquit a defendant.

, one hears about another person being released due to conclusive DNA evidence that clears this person.

"Another major problem that arises in forensic DNA typing is contamination," stated Peter J. Neufeld and Neville Coleman in "When Science Takes the Witness Stand (Neufeld Coleman 571)." That person released may have been cleared of the crime they were originally charged with. However, what if they had committed the crime? Now this person is walking the stre

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