<Li> In 1986 , Richard Buckland was exonerated , despite having admitted to the rape and murder of a teenager near Leicester , the city where DNA profiling was first developed . This was the first use of DNA fingerprinting in a criminal investigation , and the first to prove a suspect 's innocence . The following year Colin Pitchfork was identified as the perpetrator of the same murder , in addition to another , using the same techniques that had cleared Buckland . </Li>
<Li> In 1986 , Richard Buckland was exonerated , despite having admitted to the rape and murder of a teenager near Leicester , the city where DNA profiling was first developed . This was the first use of DNA fingerprinting in a criminal investigation , and the first to prove a suspect 's innocence . The following year Colin Pitchfork was identified as the perpetrator of the same murder , in addition to another , using the same techniques that had cleared Buckland . </Li>
when was dna testing first used in court
when was dna testing first used in court
1986
1986