Innocence Project (DNA fingerprinting)

Imagine that a 14 year old boy is interrogated by the police to the point that he confesses that he has murdered his sister, a crime he did not commit. Clearly after this confession, the boy will spend the rest of his life in the jail, but, what could the boy do toprove that he is not the murderer? The answer is easy; DNA fingerprinting.
Thanks to this method many and many people who were in jail because of a crime that they didn't commit have been liberated; this is the job of http://www.innocenceproject.org/ who have already exonerated 281 people. (Data updated on 12/09/2011).
An example of their amazing job is Michael Anthony Green who stayed 27 years in a jail for a crime that he didn't even commited. This Texan was convicted in 1983 for a rape.

According to court records, a woman talking on a pay phone with her husband was abducted at gunpoint by two men at a Greenspoint-area gas station after midnight on April 18, 1983. They forced her into a car with two other men. Her abductors drove the victim to a secluded area, where three of them sexually assaulted her. The fourth man did not participate.

Green was convicted because he was in the area where the four black men commited their rape and he was black. Michael spent 27 years in prison.

After reading this story I became really interested in this topic and I discovered that to identify a DNA is easier than what it appears to be. After reading this story I have also learnt that the persistance is very important, this is why probably Mr.Green is free now. My perspective about the justice system has not changed at all, specially because I know that now they try to check the DNA in every case and that only a few people can resulr convicted when they have not done anything bad. To conclude I would like to say that thanks to the scientific improvements now we can know who has really commited a crime.

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