Month September 2015

Forensic evidence connects three-year old murder case to remains found in the Raigad Forest.

McCollum and Brown sue over wrongful murder convictions, alleging a failure to disclose a request to compare fingerprints before their trial. McCollum, Brown sue

A forthcoming article that Kerry Abrams and I have been working on – here is the abstract: Over the past three decades, government regulation and funding of DNA testing has reshaped the use of genetic evidence across various fields, including criminal law,… Continue Reading →

The training will be presented by Dr. Itiel Dror, PhD., who has done extensive research in the areas of cognitive bias and human performance, including information processing involved in perception, judgment and decision making. http://sfbay.ca/2015/09/05/sf-forensic-division-to-undergo-cognitive-bias-training/

Police requested DNA samples from members of the community interviewed during a community canvassing in conjunction with the Fox Lake murder. The commander of the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force says these individuals are not necessarily considered suspects.

DNA collected by Springfield, Missouri officers in connection with an attempted rape committed on August 2nd reveals that the same man may have been the perpetrator in a 2011 rape.

Just posted on SSRN here, a book chapter by Jonathan Koehler on “Communicating Probabilistic Forensic Evidence in Court,” examining the types of conclusions and frameworks that experts may use and the research on how jurors appreciate such forensics testimony.  Highly… Continue Reading →

Police were able to connect a cold case from 2013 to a man whose DNA was recently added to the Combined DNA Index System, which led to his arrest.

Watch streaming video of the Statistical and Applied Mathematics of Forensics Program, live this week, here