Australia: Exoneration of Kathleen Folbigg of infanticide raises important legal issues

While the advances in genetic science were instrumental in overturning Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions, an examination of her 2003 trial highlights the danger of undermining the basic legal principle of the presumption of innocence.

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