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DUE: No Later Than Wednesday, July 20 LENGTH: 3-4 pages (700-800 words) Up to 10 points You have recently seen the video: "What Jennifer Saw." Summarize the video Then: Consider: How could Ms. Thompson's eyewitness identification be so wrong? 1. In how many cases do you believe that DNA analysis has proved that a person convicted of a crime was actually innocent? 2. For what types of crime is DNA analysis most likely to be useful (either exculpatory or confirmatory)? 3. From 1989 through about 1995, the FBI laboratory ran pretrial DNA analysis for about 10,000 rape cases. Relative to the primary suspects in these cases how many were: Inconclusive:__________________ Confirmed:_____________________ Exluded:_______________________ 4. From a search of the Internet, how common is eye witness testimony in sending somebody to prison? Read and use the following to guide you in this exercise: http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas/class/Stuff/DNA
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