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A murder in Austin Texas: A case report featuring evaluation given activity level propositions

John Buckleton1,2

  • 1Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Journal of Forensic Sciences
|June 11, 2025
PubMed
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This analysis of murder case evidence in Austin, Texas, used a Bayesian network to evaluate activity level propositions. The findings strongly support the original testimony, with a likelihood ratio of 1300 favoring the primary hypothesis.

Keywords:
evaluation of DNA given activity propositionsexpert knowledgeforensic DNA analysistestimony

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