Secret source code pronounces you guilty as charged

Posted by BernardSwiss on Oct 18, 2015 1:11 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By David Kravets 		Mail this story
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The results from a Pennsylvania company's TrueAllele DNA testing software have been used in roughly 200 criminal cases, from California to Florida, helping put murderers and rapists in prison. Criminal defense lawyers, however, want to know whether it's junk science. Defense attorneys have routinely asked, and have been denied, access to examine the software's 170,000 lines of source code in a bid to challenge the authenticity of its conclusions.

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