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People of New York v Christopher James
TrueAllele finds killer on crime scene DNA evidence
| Crime | On February 10, 2010, a man was stabbed to death in his home. |
| Evidence | DNA was swabbed from a knife sheath strap, jacket, T-shirt and cable. |
| DNA | The Suffolk County crime laboratory developed DNA mixture data from the evidence items. |
| Match | Manual interpretation of the data was inconclusive. |
| TrueAllele | On the same DNA data, the computer connected the jacket to defendant Christopher James with an 8.33 billion match statistic. |
| Cybergenetics | On October 19, 2018, Forensic Analyst Beatriz Pujols testified at trial in Riverhead, NY about the TrueAllele results. |
| Outcome | On October 26, 2018, Mr. James was found guilty of second-degree murder. |