DNA Doesn’t Mean Guilty

Nancy Driver
4 min readJun 3, 2019

When it comes to true crime cases having DNA evidence is often treated as the holy grail of evidence. If someone’s DNA is at the scene of the crime, then they must have committed the crime, right? Wrong.

Generally, evidence is classified into two categories: circumstantial and direct. Circumstantial evidence requires jurors to make inferences about the information presented to them whereas direct evidence doesn’t require…

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Nancy Driver

I work in cybersecurity and write about things I enjoy - Science, technology, gaming, reading, culture.