Comment by lokar
1 day ago
I don’t know the numbers, but DNA exonerations give a bit of a natural experiment (where testable evidence was preserved).
1 day ago
I don’t know the numbers, but DNA exonerations give a bit of a natural experiment (where testable evidence was preserved).
They give a floor, and that floor is too small to be useful.
The main obstacle is the denominator. How many conversations were there (before dna testing) where testable tissue was preserved? You would want to test some random sample of them against the person convicted.