J4H | Justice 4 Hank Skinner

Putting Crime Scene DNA Analysis on Trial

“Just in the past two years, there has been a huge rush to go into the probabilistic genotyping field, and people are jumping into this without really thinking about a lot of these issues: how sensitivity impacts what they’re doing, how “transfer” and “persistence” of DNA can impact their results, and what they’re doing in terms of the way that they set up their propositions that go into the likelihood ratios of their probabilistic genotyping programs. »
According to Lauren Kirshner in ProRepublica,
Putting Crime Scene DNA Analysis on Trial is a necessity and not an option.