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Last week, EFF filed an amicus brief in People v. Alvin Davis in California, in support of Mr. Davis's right to inspect the source code of STRMix, the forensic DNA software used at his trial. This is the most recent in a string of cases in which EFF...
Along with the ACLU of Pennsylvania, we filed an amicus brief in the United States District Court for Western Pennsylvania explaining that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ constitutional rights and the public’s right to oversee the criminal trial process. We also explain why source code, and other...
Although DNA is individual to you—a “fingerprint” of your genetic code—DNA samples don’t always tell a complete story. The DNA samples used in criminal prosecutions are generally of low quality, making them particularly complicated to analyze. They are not very concentrated, not very complete, or are a mixture of multiple...
