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To: SeaHawkFan
There is, in fact.

DNA can prove someone was present at a location, it cannot prove that he wasn't.

If you can prove someone else was present, it creates reasonable doubt.

It doesn't mean the first person is innocent: it simply means they are unconvictable.

To "exonerate" is to prove someone innocent - which DNA evidence alone rarely does.

10 posted on 12/24/2015 6:17:06 AM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake

I agree with your point generally speaking. In this instance the DNA is as close to definitive as possible because it positively identified another man who just so happened to be a known sexual predator who had attacked another woman on the same beach a few years earlier.


12 posted on 12/24/2015 6:55:50 AM PST by .45 Long Colt
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To: wideawake

Your logic is so weak as to be unbelievable. Based on your very strained logic, it’s possible you committed the crime.


32 posted on 12/24/2015 2:04:48 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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