http://defensology.com/2006/04/12/when-prosecutors-clash-with-science/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:48:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://defensology.com/2006/04/12/when-prosecutors-clash-with-science/#comment-319 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:19:07 +0000 http://defensology.com/2006/04/12/when-prosecutors-clash-with-science/#comment-319 [...] Undaunted, prosecutors are now arguing that the male DNA sample found on Sister Pahl’s underwear was small, and could have come from one of the investigators or someone else on the scene. Never mind Edmond Locard’s Transference Theory (when two objects meet, there is always a transference from one object to the other), or the small detail that if they could find small samples of an investigator’s DNA on the nun 26 years later, why are they not able to find ANY belonging to the man they claim brutally stabbed her repeatedly? [...] […] Undaunted, prosecutors are now arguing that the male DNA sample found on Sister Pahl’s underwear was small, and could have come from one of the investigators or someone else on the scene. Never mind Edmond Locard’s Transference Theory (when two objects meet, there is always a transference from one object to the other), or the small detail that if they could find small samples of an investigator’s DNA on the nun 26 years later, why are they not able to find ANY belonging to the man they claim brutally stabbed her repeatedly? […]

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