DNA evidence not safe

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The Court of Appeal warned that great care was needed in cases involving DNA identification evidence. It quashed a conviction for rape after hearing expert evidence that the measurements and the basis on which they were arrived at were not sufficiently precise to justify the prosecution claim to the jury to the effect that the probability of a mismatch was one in 159 million.

R v Gordon, Independent 9.6.94.

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