I decided to change the feel of this blog alittle so i would be able to continue writing more things that would be interesting to more people. I want the feel to be something more of less that more people will want to read. I decided to have this geared more towards crime and criminal actions than posed to just the science aspect. Today i decided to rant about criminals being exonerated. In many cases coming from the eyes of a scientist the person is innocent until proven guilty. Having taken many classes in science and math taking a course in law this semester is especially frustrating. With law, it is not necessarily black and white. There is always some gray area and in that gray area the person who actually is guilty may in fact be set free. In our line of work it is often stated that it is better to set a guilty man free than to imprison an innocent man. In this article i found, a man is now being exonerated after many years from DNA evidence. http://forensicnews.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-dna-evidence-may-exonerate.html
While i do agree that if he is infact innocent i feel that people rely on intricate details and loopholes in order to get out of trouble. Although there is no way of fixing this problem it is something that is a big problem. For example a very well renowned case like the OJ Simpson case was thrown out and he was exonerated just because of a technicality. I believe with increasing scientific inventions there will be less room for error but I can confidently say I don't think this problem will ever go away.
