Five years after an interlaboratory study showed that more than a hundred forensic laboratories could not agree on a single forensic riddle—and that a majority of them implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical felony, in error—the federal agency who produced the findings has officially published them in a peer-reviewed journal.
“NIST Interlaboratory Studies Involving DNA Mixtures (MIX05 and MIX13): Variation Observed and Lessons Learned” was published open-access online by Forensic Science International: Genetics this week—potentially making the problems with DNA mixture interpretation easier to cite by defense experts, and even prosecutors.
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