Re: Another repeat - The McCanns
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 1:29 pm
"Why did the Mc Canns seek a ruling to have the sniffer dog ruled as inadmissible if it is so clearly unreliable anyway? Why bother? Why be so afraid of this non-evidence?"
If they had known in advance that Scotland Yard were going to discredit the evidence, maybe they wouldn't have bothered. But they couldn't really have known that in advance.
"So a 100% finding suddenly converts to a 0% finding. These forensic people have become very careless."
Forensic science is actually full of mistakes. Many of them very serious mistakes. Remember the "gunshot residue" that convicted Barry George? Later described as worthless evidence. And similar mistakes in a hundred other cases I could mention.
"You've a long way to go before you get a job with Team Mc Cann"
I'm not a lawyer as you seem to think.
If they had known in advance that Scotland Yard were going to discredit the evidence, maybe they wouldn't have bothered. But they couldn't really have known that in advance.
"So a 100% finding suddenly converts to a 0% finding. These forensic people have become very careless."
Forensic science is actually full of mistakes. Many of them very serious mistakes. Remember the "gunshot residue" that convicted Barry George? Later described as worthless evidence. And similar mistakes in a hundred other cases I could mention.
"You've a long way to go before you get a job with Team Mc Cann"
I'm not a lawyer as you seem to think.