DNA fingerprinting is the use of DNA comparison to see if a person is in fact connected to the scene of the crime. DNA fingerprinting is fairly new and now that it is out people have been reviewing cases that people in jail ask for. Because of this people have been let out of jail because it is proven that they were not guilty leading to the proof that the system is not working.
David Shephard he was wrongly convicted of rape, robbery, weapons violations, and terrorist threats in 1983, he was sentenced to 30 years. David was prosecution was upon a victim’s identification of David. David was accused of taking a women into her own car where one held her down why the other drove where they took here to a residential area and raped her. When they were finished the kicked her out and drove off with her car. David was the only one not convicted of the crime.
In order for me to do DNA fingerprinting you must first have a basic knowledge of DNA. Then you must know how the process of separating DNA from the cell. You then must know how to separate certain parts of DNA so you can target looking at only one part of the DNA. Then you have to know how to do Electro Phoresis.
From this story I am taking away the fact that the system is not working. Because the system is not working it makes me think about all the people in jail that were taken away from their life because they were wrongly accused. I think that the system does not work and that we have to change it.
