Supporting Your Laboratory through Legal Challenges to the Use of Probabilistic Genotyping Workshop

Description:

Forensic laboratories have increasingly adopted probabilistic genotyping methods for the interpretation of DNA mixtures.

Legal challenges at admissibility hearings span a range of topics including general acceptance, scope of the internal validation, defense access and source code, relatives, and the Likelihood Ratio.

This workshop will cover the key recommendations for internal validation. We will discuss experimental design to meet the recommendations, summarize published material addressing the key issues, and discuss common challenges to the use of PG methods. Using interactive engagement, we will provide the audience with strategies to address and to prepare for admissibility hearings for PG software.

Learning Outcomes:

• To understand the relevant standards and recommendations for validation
• Gain an appreciation of what data is publicly available to support Probabilistic Genotyping
• Support your laboratory to effectively address common challenges to the use of Probabilistic Genotyping (e.g. mixtures involving relatives, number of contributors, “factor space”, source code availability, activity level propositions)

Intended Audience:

This workshop is intended for DNA analysts, supervisors, technical leaders, attorneys and judges. Some knowledge required.