Judge Richard Posner on DNA Evidence: Missing the Trees for the Forest?

In the cornucopia of court opinions, errors in the description of statistical concepts are a dime a dozen. Most never see the light of day. ...

The Constitutionality of DNA Collection Before Conviction: An Updated Scorecard

Note : This posting updates previous ones. It is current as of July 17, 2014. Seventeen years ago, Louisiana adopted a law mandating that ...

The Impact of Medina's Marginal Balancing on DNA Databases and Sample Retention

The opinion of the Supreme Court of Vermont in State v. Medina is a first. This is not because it strikes down a law requiring all individu...

State v. Medina: Can the Vermont Supreme Court Overrule the U.S. Supreme Court on DNA Databases?

Today the Vermont Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional Vermont’s law requiring individuals charged with any felony to submit to DNA...

McDaniel v. Brown: Whose Error?

The DNA analyst who miscomputed the siblingship probability and accepted the prosecutor's transposition of her random match probability ...

McDaniel v. Brown: Prosecutorial and Expert Misstatements of Probabilities Do Not Justify Postconviction Relief — At Least Not Here and Not Now

Originally posted to Double Helix Law, Jan. 18, 2010 (http://www.personal.psu.edu/dhk3/blogs/DoubleHelixLaw/2010/01/mcdaniel-v-brown-prosecu...

The Death of the Double Helix Law Blog

I have decided to terminate the Double Helix Law blog. Some of it was duplicated in this blog anyway, and for what they are worth, I'll ...