The Emotion In DNA
As technology moves forward
yet people contradict science and push it backward
yes, it’s true
people shy away from science
think I’m wrong?
here’s my proof:
people want to discount
the use of DNA testing in criminal trials
how many years have scientists
used DNA tests to determine
someone committed a crime?
DNA evidence is hard, scientific evidence
And in trials, evidence
hard, scientific evidence
is what is needed to decide a verdict
with DNA evidence
people can accept science
and trust evidence
but that trend
accepting this science
is now being fought
I quote the spokesman for the Illinois
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office:
“DNA may be important,
 but
it’s not the ace that trumps all other cards”
cases are increasingly being tried
even when DNA tests show
the person in custody did not commit the crime
Recall the O.J. Simpson trial
when hard evidence was refuted
with claims that evidence was mishandled
but hard evidence was refuted
with unfounded claims
of a police conspiracy
or the theory that this was a drug hit
it was sad that these emotional pleas
and not DNA evidence
won over the jury and decided the case
people not argue against logic and science
by making a plea to emotions
O.J. Simpson loved his wife
the lawyers said
they introduced additional theories
with or without merit
the lawyers were pleading to the jury
based on their emotions
just remember that all of these pleas
are just that
pleas
the problem is that the world tries to pair
the belief in logic, science and reason
with clinging to faith and tradition
they can’t allow both sides to be right
Copyright Janet Kuypers.
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