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State of West Virginia v Tyler Kennedy
DNA evidence helps prove man innocent of sexual assault
| Crime | At a party on April 23, 2016, an intoxicated teenage girl was sexually assaulted by a group of men. |
| Evidence | The hospital collected a sexual assault kit. |
| DNA | The West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory produced DNA mixture data from the evidence. |
| Match | Due to the complexity of the mixture data, the lab was unable to draw any conclusions through their manual analysis. |
| TrueAllele | On the same data, the computer statistically excluded defendant Tyler Kennedy. And connected two other men to the DNA evidence. |
| Cybergenetics | On April 26, 2018, Cybergenetics forensic analyst Beatriz Pujols testified at the trial in Charles Town, West Virginia about the computer's DNA match statistics. |
| Outcome | On April 27, 2018, Tyler Kennedy was found not guilty of sexual assault. |