DNA Analysis in Hungary
DNA Analysis in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: As new developments emerge in the field of DNA and continue to advance methods and means in the work of police forces, then courts, prisons and other organisations and the criminal justice system as a whole must face fundamental changes in forensic DNA testing. The technological advances in DNA analysis will provide the means to prevent and combat crime at a higher level. The authors would like to share some thoughts about the basic rules of DNA records, DNA analysis, the weight and structure of expert opinion on DNA and, last but not least, they would like to introduce a short case study where DNA testing was admitted as evidence. Technological findings regarding DNA and their strict regulation should be seen as ways to enable the authorities and to exclude the possibility of falsification and contamination of such evidence – in this way not allowing the strength, weight and admissibility of DNA evidence in legal procedures to be undermined.

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