But on your comments where there's no legislation for exoneration--and I accept that to be true--this is not really a data bank question, this is more a criminal defence question. If I am a suspect in a serious offence and I obviously believe that I'm innocent, can I not submit to DNA testing--and obviously having my sample in the data bank would be of no use to my defence--for comparison to anything that might be collected at the crime scene? Now, do I have to hire my own experts as a defence to do that?
On February 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.