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Originally Posted by Kevin
Perhaps Congress and the states need to address how DNA evidence can be admissible in the criminal prosecution process, address it in the Federal Rules of Evidence and the state statutes.
For example, DNA evidence standing alone, without any corroborating evidence, IMHO, should not be admissible by the state (but should be admissible by the defendant at any time, before or after the trial), but should be able to be used as probable cause to find evidence. I do agree that the rules could use some 'tightening up' so as to let DNA evidence find its proper place in civil and criminal trials. Off the top of my head, those are a couple areas I believe the nation's legislators need to look at, but I doubt they will because the police will bitch and moan about being deprived of important tools for prosecuting criminals.
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Is it addressed at all in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure? I'm taking Crim Pro next summer session (as well as a law and forensic science class with Dr. Henry Lee in the fall), so I suppose I'll find out then...