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To: Age of Reason
This DNA business is not sound science UNLESS they also test for chimerism.

Once again, what part of reasonable doubt do you not understand? If one in 100,000,000 is a chimera, I'll stick with DNA as a means to determine reasonable doubt - unless you'd rather several hundred men stay in jail so that we might catch that one chimera.

47 posted on 08/01/2005 11:31:07 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: dirtboy
If one in 100,000,000 is a chimera,

IF

1) LAST TIME I CHECKED (a year or two ago), NO ONE KNOWS THE INCIDENCE.

THEY ASSUME IT'S RARE.

2) BUT EVEN IF they PROVED it rare in the GENERAL population of humans--

That would not be good enough.

They would need to prove that being a human chimera does not make one more prone to CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR (a reasonble suspicion, given how a chimera's DNA is all mess up)--

And that would make the frequency of chimerism among prisoners higher.

49 posted on 08/01/2005 11:39:12 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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