DUE: No Later Than Thursday, September 21 (at class time) 
Up to 10 points

NOTE: YOU **MUST** HAND IN THIS SHEET WITH THE EXERCISE TO RECEIVE CREDIT
NO SHEET, NO GRADE!

On Tuesday, you saw 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:
(NOTE: YOU MUST!! Address this information)

 http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas/class/Stuff/DNA