Comment Re:For-Profit Correctional Facilities (Score 1) 135
I am. This has led to many miscarriages of justice.
Prosecutor: "The DNA test shows there is a 1 in 10 million change that this person is not guilty"
Truth: "The DNA test shows that this person is one of around 35 people in the USA who could have deposited this DNA, I.E. 1 person in 10 million of the US population (assuming the US population to be 350 million)"
There needs to be something else to make it that person and not someone else. Scouring a DNA database of the whole US is going to throw up many false positives.