ale child who had been denied entry into the country, given that immigration of ficers did not believe that he was the son of the claimed mother. This woman, who was Ghanian, had the right to live in Great Bri tain. Using multi-locus probes, Alec Jeffreys, a Leicester Uni versity fellow, tested the son and his claimed mother. The re sults of the DNA test revealed that they were indeed related. The chances of this match occurring at random was 30 million to 1. After this case, DNA fingerprinting was used on other immigrants and a youth who was being confined in a British prison on the charge of murder. The youth had been confined for a three-month period on this charge, and was found via blood and saliva sample DNA fingerprinting to be innocent.8
There have been other DNA fingerprinting cases in the United States that are of interest. In the Lopez v. New York State case, the defendant was convicted of the rape and sexual abuse of three rape victims. While the testimony of the victims proved important to
...