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...profiling is "a tool for exclusion," says George F. Sensabaugh, Jr., a professor of forensic science at the University of California at Berkeley. "If I am innocent and DNA evidence can prove it, I want testing done. [But], if I am guilty and DNA evidence will implicate me, I don't want it done...
...catch-22 of the testing is that no one knows how many markers need to be tested. "No one has defined what that threshold might be," said Sensabaugh. "An ad hoc number like 8 to 10 provides the presumption of rebuttable proof of identification...
...Sensabaugh cautions that a DNA database of all individuals might not be a wise idea. He worries that the database could be used for new forms of genetic discrimination. "I don't want one, and you probably don't either," Sensabaugh says...
...Sensabaugh does not, however, foreser DNA profiling becoming the method of choice for identification. "I don't see a point where genetic identification will become more common that fingerprints," Sensabaugh said...
...views illustrate how public opinion in this farming community (pop. 8,440) has hardened among some people. Those who were suspicious of Nixon now totally distrust him. But many still defend him and are insistent that the liberal news media are partly to blame. Farmer Carl Sensabaugh, 69, and his wife Katrina, 70, still pay more attention to the price of chicken feed, but are concerned about what is going on in Washington. He says: "I don't keep up with it except on TV, but I kinda feel like if they would leave the President alone...