DNA Evidence in Minnesota Assault Cases: What It Proves—and What Prosecutors Can’t Prove: A Defense Attorney’s Perspective from Barron Law Office

Ginny Barron is a Minnesota criminal defense attorney who focuses on and regularly litigates cases involving forensic DNA evidence. DNA evidence has become one of the most powerful—and most misunderstood—forces in modern criminal prosecutions. In Minnesota assault cases, it is often presented as if it answers the ultimate question: what happened. It does not. Jurors…