[apackof2]

Its the DNA that counts or does it?

First move will be for Karr's ACLU lawyers, if there is any DNA match is to discredit any match as the samples being degraded

[RightWhale]

Is this melodrama still in the MSM news rotation?

[OldFriend]

The DNA samples from the original crime scene have been digitized. Whether they will be acceptable to a defense attorney is something else. I am not familiar with the process.

[shalom aleichem]

The major evidence of guilt is his confession. He has volunteered to take the rap. Who says his "ACLU lawyers" will argue anything? The DNA evidence could only mean that someone else was there. It will not necessarily exclude him. We already hear there was no "sex", no semen, etc. The big reason the cops thought it was an inside (family) job was no footprints in the snow. Very weird case. I kinda think he did it, after vascillating due to inaccurate media accounts (which will plague this and any case to no end).

[Gay State Conservative]

This clown's a silly little pervert who has always dreamed of being a celebrated pervert.He's no more guilty of this girl's murder than he is of murdering the Lindburgh baby.

[Former Fetus]

the samples being degraded

the samples were collected 10 years ago and a DNA fingerprint obtained. It is this fingerprint that will be compared to a fingerprint from Karr's DNA.

OTOH, DNA keeps quite well at -72 degrees, and they probably have some of it, but it is the fingerprint that will be compared.

[JimSEA]

When I have almost convinced myself that no sane prosecutor would go after someone like this without some pretty strong evidence, I think of Nifong’s Duke rape fiasco where there is apparently little more evidence that a certifiable nut's accusation. Here the certifiable nut is the defendant.

[Valpal1]

If the DNA matches or is inconclusive, but the palm print also matches it doesn't matter one bit what the defense attorneys argue.

If the DNA is inconclusive and the print doesn't match then they've got lots of wiggle room.

[nmh]

He didn't do it. He's obsessed with the precocious little girl and knows a lot about the case. He just wants to be the envy of pedophiles. She was a pedophiles dream come true.

Whether the DNA is "degraded" or not they have the record of it so compare what was found at the scene.