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Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties, NYU School of Law. Personal Account. she/her
Aug 8, 2018 25 tweets 5 min read
NIST finally released (5 years later!) its notorious Mix13 study, available here: fsigenetics.com/article/S1872-… Good coverage here: forensicmag.com/news/2018/08/n…. Notorious because of "case 5," in which 70 of 108 crime labs falsely implicate an innocent suspect. /1 MIX13 is a follow-on to MIX05. Both were efforts to do in forensic science what is routinely done in clinical/medical context: interlaboratory comparisons. E.g., if you get a blood test at lab A, B, and C, will all three give you the same results? Important, obviously. /2