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A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.
Parabon NanoLabs sells police composite images of suspects built on DNA. Critics warn the tool can reinforce racial stereotypes and taint witness memories.
Hampden County District Attorney Anthony Gulluni announces on Sept. 18, 2017, that Gary Schara has been apprehended as a suspect in the 1992 slaying of Lisa Ziegert.Photo: Dave Roback/The Republican via APParabon had already worked on “hundreds of cases,” Greytak said during the webinar, sharing a couple of alleged success stories. Chanel Lewis sits at the defense table on the sixth day of his retrial in Queens, N.Y., for the August 2016 murder of Karina Vetrano on March 26, 2019.Photo: Charles Eckert/Newsday via AP Where FDP is concerned, there is at least one current case where police use of Parabon’s work to identify a suspect is being challenged in court. “The idea that anyone is hiding behind trade secrets when life and liberty is at stake, we have to ask ourselves some serious questions about what we’re about,” said Rebecca Wexler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, “if we’re sort of like, ‘Nope, that profit motive must transcend this person’s ability to prove their innocence.’”
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