DNA test: scopes and limitations in the criminal process
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It is evident that there have been great advances in the field of genetic biology in recent years, but this does not mean that modern scientific techniques can be used without further to base on them the conviction or acquittal of a defendant. Ultimately, we find ourselves with a problem of legislative policy. The Constitution of 1978, interpreted by the Constitutional Court, imposes a criminal procedural system covered by a set of guarantees, which can clash in concrete aspects with the purpose of the natural science of reaching the truth of the facts, and not at any price, if at a different price than the one that is willing to pay our Rule of Law. We will propose in this paper the scope of this test.
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