Section 3 of 6
The Record
The documented history, kept in one list: the observation in Leicester, the exoneration that came before the first conviction, and the reviews that withdrew or restricted methods afterwards.
Entries in this section
The documented history, including the exonerations. 5 entries.
- Entry 3.01Leicester, 1984Alec Jeffreys noticed repeating sequences that varied enough between people to identify them, and called the result a genetic fingerprint.
- Entry 3.02The first exonerationThe technique's first use in a criminal investigation cleared a man who had already confessed, which is the reason it was trusted afterwards.
- Entry 3.03The Innocence ProjectPost-conviction testing has overturned a documented and countable number of convictions.
- Entry 3.04Cleared of the methodSeveral early techniques were later withdrawn or restricted after review, which is how a forensic discipline is supposed to work.
- Entry 3.05The 2016 reviewA national review examined which forensic methods had been validated and which had not.