| The development in DNA technology has paved way for improvements in various sectors such as medicine, pharmaceuticals, environmental science, forensic science, etc. Positive changes have been brought about in these sectors due to this technology. These days’, DNA Defense experts are using this technology to solve a wide array of criminal cases. Fingerprint technology is the most important advantage of this DNA technology and using this technology many DNA Defense experts have caught hard core criminals. The technology also helps the lawyers and police officials to eliminate criminals. Using skin tissue, saliva, semen, hair, blood, etc, one can find out whether an individual is culprit or not.
Since past decade, there has been lot of improvements and advancements in DNA Technology. The technology has changed the face of way criminal science has developed and finding about criminals have become lot easier. If someone has been wrongfully convicted, this technology may help them by exonerating them.
Many criminal defense lawyers and DNA Defense experts have promoted this forensic DNA testing technology and the use of this technology and DNA tests provide a unique and infallible identification. Even former critics of DNA testing are attesting to the reliability of the DNA evidence in their cases. People generally assume that any past issues with DNA evidence have been solved and that the tests are now impregnable and unquestionable.
This technology at times ignores case-to-case variations in the quality and nature of DNA related evidence and that is the problem with this assumption. Although since it was first used just 15 years ago, DNA technology has indeed improved, and to produce powerful and convincing results, the tests have the potential, and in every case that potential is not realized.
There is no guarantee that every time a test will produce reliable results, it is used even when the reliability and admissibility of the underlying test is well established. The quality and relevance of DNA test results greatly affects case-specific issues and problems. DNA evidence is little less probative in those situations than it might initially appear.
Sometimes the DNA evidence is slightly weak and hence misleading and in such a scenario, the criminal justice system does a poor job of distinguishing unassailably powerful DNA evidence. Those defense lawyers who are unable to carry out proper evaluation of DNA evidence, the fault lies with them.
This way DNA testing has helped a lot to solve complicated criminal cases and make things easier for defendants and the lawyers representing them. The time taken to solve a case has also reduced considerably thereby bringing down the pressure on criminal justice system. This is the reason many countries have officially allowed use of DNA technology in their justice system thereby bringing about a revolution. |
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