Adversarial Scrutiny of Evidentiary Statistical Software
Adversarial Scrutiny of Evidentiary Statistical Software
The U.S. criminal legal system increasingly relies on software output to convict and incarcerate people. In a large number of cases each year, the government makes these consequential decisions based on evidence from statistical software—such as probabilistic genotyping, environmental audio detection, and toolmark analysis tools—that defense counsel cannot fully cross-examine …