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French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults

Posted by timothy on from the ok-fellas-time's-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a real life Prisoner's Dilemma taking place in the French city of Marseille, twin brothers have been arrested for a string of sexual assaults. While say they are sure that one of them committed the crimes (corroborated by a standard DNA test), police were told that it would cost upwards of €1m euros (£850,000, $1.3m USD) to distinguish between them using DNA evidence."

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  1. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Having said that, I believe the yearly cost of incarcerating a prisoner in the States is somewhere in the neighborhood of $40k US. One life sentence (30 years? 35 years?) later, we've already spent a million dollars protecting society from a dangerous criminal - why balk at another million to prove beyond a reasonable doubt which brother is the dangerous criminal?

    Because this is France, where sexual assaults earn a slap on the rump and an "atta boy".