George "Woody" Clarke has been renowned for years in legal   circles and among the news media because of his expertise in DNA evidence.   In this memoir, Clarke chronicles his experiences in some of the most   disturbing and notorious sexual assault and murder court cases in   California. He charts the beginnings of DNA testing in police   investigations and the fight for its acceptance by courts and juries. He   illustrates the power of science in cases he personally prosecuted or in   which he assisted, including his work with the prosecution team in the   trial of O.J. Simpson.     Although Clarke spent much of his career as a prosecutor, he also covers   cases where DNA evidence was used to exonerate. He directed a special   project, proactively examining over six hundred cases of defendants   convicted and sentenced to prison before 1993, with the goal of finding   instances in which DNA typing might add new evidence and then offered   testing to those inmates.     Databases of both convicted offenders and no-suspect cases demonstrate the   power of DNA testing to solve the unsolvable. As Clarke tells the story of   how he came to understand and use this new form of evidence, readers will   develop a new appreciation for the role of science in the legal system.

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