Brown v. Farwell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “To illustrate, suppose the ... evidence establishes that there is a one in 10,000 chance of a random match. The jury might equate this likelihood with source probability by believing that there is a one in 10,000 chance that the evidentiary sample did not come from the defendant. This equation of random match probability with source probability is known as the prosecutor's fallacy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jackson

2. “U.S. v. Shonubi, 895 F.Supp. 460, 516 (E.D.N.Y.1995) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted), vacated on other grounds, 103 F.3d 1085 (2d Cir.1997); see also U.S. v. Chischilly, 30 F.3d 1144, 1157 (9th Cir.1994) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jackson

3. “presents statistical evidence to suggest that the [DNA] evidence indicates the likelihood of the defendant's guilt rather than the odds of the evidence having been found in a randomly selected sample.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jackson