"Identical Twins Commit Perfect Crime":

GeekPress reports, pointing to a Der Spiegel article: "Saved by their indistinguishable DNA, identical twins suspected in a massive jewelry heist have been set free. Neither could be exclusively linked to the DNA evidence."

Of course, in the pre-DNA era such a crime would have been even harder to solve, twins or no twins. And even in the post-DNA era the government obviously has some techniques for figuring out which of the twins did the deed, though it sounds like those techniques aren't working well here.

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Identical Twins & Reasonable Doubt: Eugene's post brought back memories. When I was in college, my grandfather and brother were victims of an armed robbery in my grandfather's tile store in Harvey, Illinois. During my first year of law school, the case went to trial. The defendant was acquitted when the defense produced the defendant's identical twin in court to cast doubt on the eyewitness identification. My brother had heard about the existence of a twin and tried to tell the prosecutor before trial, but he never got the chance in the rushed pretrial interview. Perhaps there was nothing the prosecutor could have done about this problem had he known in advance but, due to his inadequate witness preparation, he was prevented from taking any precautions by the fact he knew nothing about the twin until after the twin appeared in open court.

The three most important values of lawyering: preparation, preparation, preparation.

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