[AnAmericanMother]

DNA evidence is only as good as the expert who analyzes it and the expert witness who testifies.

You remember all the fraud out of the FBI crime lab a few years back?

Consider the possibility that that can cut both ways. It may be hard to argue against "science", but "science" can be manipulated to fool the credulous.

I think it's more than likely that an error or a little fudging took place in the "innocence project" DNA analysis.

[Jim_Curtis]

DNA evidence is only as good as the expert who analyzes it and the expert witness who testifies. You remember all the fraud out of the FBI crime lab a few years back?

I'll wager that these folks at the Wisconsin Innocence Project took evidence from the other guy and stuck it into this Avery's case file before doing the new tests. It would be extremely easy to do and not a darn thing you can do to challenge the results.

[JamesP81]

You remember all the fraud out of the FBI crime lab a few years back?

This is the problem. Our generally corrupt justice system will still send people to prison who didn't do anything based on crappy DNA evidence. It will also turn loose cold blooded psychopathic killers and rapists based, again, on crappy DNA evidence and fraud.

The bottom line is that the criminal justice system doesn't have any credibility. And that's bad news. You start mixing in personal ambition, fraud, and foster an atmosphere of witch-hunting among the public and it turns everything upside down: crooks are being set free, and the innocent are getting jailed.