It’s a bit misleading and the tests were performed in 2019 to a disputed shawl owned by the suspect. This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court.
Just to be pedantic, the “let alone” turn of phrase is meant to imply that the second thing has a higher standard. So in this case it should be corrected to “this wouldn’t hold up in a Victorian age court, let alone a modern one.”
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It’s a bit misleading and the tests were performed in 2019 to a disputed shawl owned by the suspect. This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court.
Just to be pedantic, the “let alone” turn of phrase is meant to imply that the second thing has a higher standard. So in this case it should be corrected to “this wouldn’t hold up in a Victorian age court, let alone a modern one.”
What makes you think victorian court has higher standards than modern day ones?
I think they mean the standards were lower in Victorian times.
He’s saying they wouldn’t understand the DNA claim in the first place.