Thank you.
I thank you for coming here today.
While on the one hand DNA tests are important, on the other hand they create an opportunity for litigation. Let me give you two examples.
Let us say that we do DNA tests and that we have 5,000, 10,000, 100,000 or even one million names in the data bank. Could someone wishing to accuse an innocent party use this bank for this purpose? Suppose that I decide tomorrow to take a hair sample from you and drop it on a crime scene where fingerprints would not be available. The only evidence we would have is that hair sample. With this data bank, we prove beyond any reasonable doubt that this hair sample belongs to someone arrested for vagrancy a long time ago. Twenty-five years later, he finds himself implicated in a murder case in which he had no involvement.
Might this not create an opportunity for criminals who would like to use this type of evidence? Might the police also use this to get rid of somebody they would prefer to see in jail?
I would like to know what you think about this, Mr. Rondinelli.