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The paper discusses how DNA testing was developed first as part of research into genetics and the nature of genetic inheritance, and it was later noted that DNA would also be a good way of identifying people for purposes of paternity and for other purposes. The paper explains that DNA testing was also developed as a way of testing suspects in those criminal cases in which some genetic material might have been collected. The paper relates that the use of DNA has been presented as having a high degree of certainty about identification, and this has been accepted by juries so that DNA evidence is often definitive. The paper describes how more recently, DNA has been used to test genetic material from older cases in order to demonstrate innocence rather than guilt.

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"DNA testing was developed first as part of research into genetics and the nature of genetic inheritance, and it was later noted that DNA would also be a good way of identifying people for purposes of paternity and for other purposes. DNA testing was also developed as a way of testing suspects in those criminal cases in which some genetic material might have been collected. The use of DNA has been presented as having a high degree of certainty about identification, and this has been accepted by juries so that DNA evidence is often definitive. More recently, DNA has been used to test genetic material from older cases in order to demonstrate innocence rather than guilt. One such case is reported by Gutowski (2007), a case..."

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