{"id":2213,"date":"2008-07-18T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/18\/different-case-but-same-blood\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T10:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T02:51:38","slug":"different-case-but-same-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/18\/different-case-but-same-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"different case but same blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">I&#8217;m not an expert in medical, genetic, or forensics (though I follow all 3 CSI series ardently). But something that the Deputy IGP said in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/Frontpage\/2296714\/Article\/index_html\">NST today<\/a> sounds very interesting regarding Anwar Ibrahim&#8217;s DNA tug of war:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That was the previous case. It is a different case now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At a press conference in Bukit Aman yesterday, Ismail was asked if police could use the blood sample take in the 1998 case.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy police chief shrugged off the suggestion, saying that they were looking at obtaining a court order instead to compel Anwar to give his blood sample for DNA tests. &#8220;We are studying various laws,&#8221; he said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>We either:<\/p>\n<p>(i) have very outdated laws that forbids such reuse<br \/>(ii) lost\/used\/contaminated the earlier blood sample<br \/>(iii) have a blood sample that cannot last 10 years (but the DNA record should)<br \/>(iv) have no sample being actually collected 10 years ago<br \/>(v) have Anwar&#8217;s twin or a clone running around the last time (but DNA should be same)<br \/>(vi) know that DNA can change in space of 10 years (can ah ???)<br \/>(vii) have a uncomfortable Deputy IGP<br \/>(viii) think that fresh blood yields fresh DNA \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Care to add more?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not an expert in medical, genetic, or forensics (though I follow all 3 CSI series ardently). But something that the Deputy IGP said in NST today sounds very interesting regarding Anwar Ibrahim&#8217;s DNA tug of war: That was the previous case. It is a different case now. At a press conference in Bukit Aman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}