That would violate the company’s right to be secure in their possessions.

The criminal law system in England & Wales is a hell of a lot better than the US one on quite a number of points:

It’s pretty hilarious that you think four peer-reviewed papers means something can’t be wrong. We’ve seen stuff with a hell of a lot more peer-reviewed studies than that turn out to be smoke and mirrors before, especially in genetics. And what is this about? Genetics.

RTFA. The defense did not do this at trial. That does make it on them, yes, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to not release the evidence and let someone die, and if you think it does, then frankly you should be on a list. And you get the “most moronic analogy on the internet” award for this week, which given some I’ve…

You are guilty of everything you [...] accuse me of doing.

I’m not the one keeping it from turning productive and fruitful. You’re the one withholding the knowledge that would make it so.

So tell me why it’s not legally permissible/enforceable to subpoena STRmix, but subpoenaing GitHub is.

What you said amounts to, “Google what a subpoena is.”

No, but I think it makes more sense to subpoena STRmix for the source code than GitHub. Am I wrong? If so, tell me why.

This has literally nothing to do with budget. It has to do with the fact that the Stored Communications Act expressly provided subpoena rights to law enforcement, and law enforcement only, while prohibiting subpoena by private parties of electronically stored information held by third-party companies. It was a…

Jesus , the US judicial system is so messed up , at this point just switching to Trial by Combat would give a fairer outcome.

“It’s unclear whether lawmakers in 1986 intentionally excluded that right for civilians or simply didn’t foresee a world in which a deleted Instagram post would contain potentially life-saving information.”

I’m 95% sure this conservative led Supreme court won’t take the case because it won’t directly line the pockets of their corporate masters.

I suspect the science is real - but unless the code can be scrutinized, there’s no way to know if the science was properly applied.

Unfortunately, Texas accepted evidence from many sources well known to be incorrect ( bite marks, blood splatter, signs of arson, hypnosis, etc). So much so, that Texas passed a ‘Junk Science’ bill after one man (Cameron Todd Willingham) was executed based on data that everyone acknowledges was false. Inmates are…

Flaws are found in peer reviewed papers all the time.

Well, if the source code has an error in it that isn’t reflected in the peer-reviewed papers, that would seem to be pretty material. The evidence in this case was produced by the software, not by some academic papers about the software. It is entirely possible that the underlying methodology is sound but that its…

A peer-reviewed paper analyzing the system may not be as convincing as testimony of an expert who has seen the source code. Also: if the papers don’t HELP the defense, then they’re certainly not going to introduce them as evidence. The source code is their only ability to prove the papers wrong, thin as that…

Seems like the title should be quicker to call out STRmix than Github.

It does sound like a hail mary for the defence, but the bigger picture of prosecutors having the ability to access evidence that a defence attorney cannot is troubling. It seems like the kind of issue a bigger entity would have an interest in.  The EFF?  The ACLU?