New York Court of Appeals Roundup: Disclosure of Software Source Code Not Required To Establish Acceptance of DNA Evidence
05.18.22
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In their column in the New York Law Journal, Litigation Partners Bill Russell and Linton Mann III discuss People v. Wakefield, in which the New York Court of Appeals addressed the admissibility of expert scientific DNA evidence that is based on complex computer analysis and the discoverability of the computer source code underlying that analysis. The court found that the trial court had properly admitted evidence of a DNA even though the defense had not been provided with the underlying source code for the software utilized by the People in performing that analysis.
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