Imagine you have an evil twin.
He constantly gets you in trouble and you have been arrested before and have your prints and DNA now on record with police.
Now imagine your evil twin pulls a multimillion dollar jewelry heist at one of the countries national landmark stores. He slips up however and accidentally leaves behind a glove with some DNA in it.
However your genetic markers are so close that you and your twin can't be told apart by your DNA and are therefore let go. This is due to a hole in the law that says a single person must be definitively placed at the scene of the crime, not to people. However, since your release the police plan to monitor your movements and actions closely.
Sounds like a plot line for an Ocean's Fourteen movie right? Wrong.
This is the real life story of two German twins who successfully pulled off a multimillion dollar jewel heist and will never see the inside of a jail cell for their crime.
This brings to question, just how many criminals are we letting slip through the cracks and should we be punishing our criminals more severely? The twins did have a record and managed to still escape punishment for this crime. What do you think should be done?
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Well I have a twin and as such I must say - twins don't have the same fingerprints.
But this story reminds me of an episode of CSI with two siblings and they kept convincing the police that one did it then the other would confess, both ways. So they had two confessions and evidence that both of them could have done it, but they couldn't prove which so both went free.
The government would rather let a criminal go free than a innocent person be inprisoned. It may not seem right but its just the way the system works.
What I don't understand is, if the the evidence is a glove, why can't they get fingerprints from it? You would think with 5 fingers being in the glove there would be some fingerprint left behind.
I think that this is an interesting blog post. I have never really taken the time to sit back and think about criminals and their acts being so closely linked to movies and television shows. I think that these two twins are very lucky to have gotten away with this robbery, but that it is an EXTREMELY rare case. I think that our government and criminal/law structure is the best that we're going to get, especially in a Democratic nation. I think that this story is an interesting one to think about, but very unlikely.
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