Guandique repeatedly denied involvement in her murder, and prosecutors acknowledged a lack of DNAevidence linking Guandique to the crime and a lack of witnesses.
On the other hand they also find themselves at pains to explain that one of television's fictional devices an unequivocal match between a trace of a substance found at acrime scene and an exemplar stored in a database, whether it be fingerprints, DNA or some other kind of evidence is indeed generally just fiction.
If the justices rule for King, more than 1 million DNA profiles that have been stored in a federal database for matching with future crime scene evidence may have to be purged and others will never be collected, leading some repeat offenders to go free, advocates say.