Can you be convicted with bogus technology ?

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Can you be convicted with bogus technology ?

This is a good summary article on the fallibility of DNA evidence.

Most interesting to me (Bruce Schneier)
are the parts on the proprietary algorithms used in
DNA matching.

 

It's the same problem as any biometric: we need to know the rates of both false positives and false negatives.

And if these algorithms are being used to determine guilt, we have a right to examine them.

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reasonable-doubt/480747/

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/evidenceprof/2016/04/yesterday-the-huffington-post-published-a-piece-on-the-trueallele-casework-system-according-to-the-piece-cybergenetics.html


http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-dark-side-of-dna-databases/408709/

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/false-impressions/