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Commonwealth of Massachusetts v Lorenzo Jones
TrueAllele analyzes firearm evidence in shooting
| Crime | In the early morning on January 27, 2014, Boston Police responded to gunshots fired. They found two people dead at the scene. Prosecutors charged three suspects for the crime. |
| Evidence | Investigators collected a firearm as evidence. |
| DNA | The Boston Police Department Crime Laboratory swabbed the grip and trigger of the gun and butt of the magazine, generating DNA data from the swab. |
| Match | Due to the low amount of DNA, the crime was unable to draw any conclusions regarding suspect Lorenzo Jones as being a contributor to the mixture. |
| TrueAllele | The TrueAllele computer linked the gun to suspect Jones with a match statistic of 50 thousand. The error rate for this match statistic is 1 in 618 thousand. |
| Cybergenetics | On February 10, 2023, Cybergenetics analyst Jennifer Bracamontes testified before a Boston jury about the TrueAllele DNA results. |
| Outcome | On February 23, 2023, the jury found Lorenzo Jones not guilty of murder, but found him guilty of a weapons charge. |