[stuartcr]

These criminals would be convicted strictly on DNA evidence, no eye-witnesses.

[Poohbah]

These criminals would be convicted strictly on DNA evidence, no eye-witnesses.

OK...as an evil gooobermint archconspirator...

Would you be willing to bet your life on that?

If you guess wrong, it IS your life.

[kaylar]

There have been several articles posted to FR on Joyce Gilchrist, a crime lab tech who may be to blame for the execution of an innocent man. Here's some nonFR reports, hopefully someone with the FR links will post them:

Joyce Gilchrist, Lab tech

More on Joyce Gilchrist, forensic chemist

And there's theFBI crime lab scandals. A book was written about it:

Tainting Evidence : Behind the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab

And there've been multiple threads posted here on that , too...perhaps a freepers who saved those links will post them, too.

And there's the cases being overturned in TX right now, where planted evidence was used to convict people of drug offense...And similar cases in LA (the state) and the cases involving the LAPD....and the Witchhunts over false and coerced child abuse accusations....

None of this encourages me at least to believe a DNA database won't be misused.