Fallible forensics

• Autores: Greg Hampikian
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3021, 2015, págs. 26-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hampikian opines on the greater scrutiny of crime labs. As DNA consultant for the defence in the Amanda Knox case, he was constantly reminded of the pertinence of this observation during her legal battle in Italy. Knox, along with Raffaele Sollecito, was definitively cleared of killing Meredith Kercher earlier this year, but only after a long fight that had at its heart the ability of forensic science and the judiciary to know what to ignore. On the day of the murder in 2007, police collected many samples from the room where Knox's housemate Kercher died.