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Defeating opposition experts: winning with science
Jennifer M. Bracamontes, MS, William P. Allan, MS, and Mark W. Perlin, PhD, MD, PhD, "Defeating opposition experts: winning with science", Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 10-May-2024.
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Abstract
An opposition expert’s argument may confuse a judge or jury. In a recent criminal case, the DNA opponent undermined probabilistic genotyping error rates. They misread a published validation study to incorrectly find a high error rate. This talk shows our successful response to the flawed attack.