2022
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.09305
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Adversarial Scrutiny of Evidentiary Statistical Software

Rediet Abebe,
Moritz Hardt,
Angela Jin
et al.

Abstract: 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 or scrutinize. This undermines the commitments of the adversarial criminal legal system, which relies on the defense's ability to probe … Show more

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