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Patterson V. Commonwealth: An Illustration Of The Legal Complexity Of Dna Databases, Audrey J. Burges
Patterson V. Commonwealth: An Illustration Of The Legal Complexity Of Dna Databases, Audrey J. Burges
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
In the old-fashioned drawing-room murder mysteries, the villain usually eliminated his target in some Victorian manner - asphyxiation in bed with a pillow, drowning in a clawed-foot tub, stabbing in the back with a letter opener - and then skulked away, convinced he had committed the perfect crime. In the plot of these mysteries, the foil to the crime always proved to be the experienced detection of a meticulous sleuth. AgathaChristie would use the skills of Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple within the plot of her novels to detect the one flaw in the murderer's technique. Perhaps there was some …