Paul Caneiro’s defense team is challenging a DNA tool known as STRmix, which prosecutors say has been tested and tried across ...

Lawyers for Paul Caneiro who is charged with the brutal murders of four of his relatives are challenging the use of an ...

Paul Caneiro, 57 — who’s accused of killing his business partner brother and the sibling’s family in Colts Neck shortly ...

Superior Court Judge Marc C. Lemiuex said he will rule on the validity of software used to analyze DNA in the Caneiro murders ...

A weekslong pretrial hearing about STRmix, which allows forensic analysts to test DNA samples that most likely would have been considered unusable a decade ago because they were too complex or ...

"It was quite good,'' Martin, a software engineer with Florida-based consulting firm Harbor Experts, said of the STRmix computer code. "It complied with most reasonable engineering standards ...

Attorneys for Paul Caneiro began their court attack on a cutting-edge computer software program known as STRmix by calling an expert in forensic DNA analysis to rebut assertions by prosecution ...

Mats Neimdahl, head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, said at an ongoing pretrial hearing that he found little or no documentation the STRmix ...

In the traditional lingo of software engineers, these systems would be called “brittle.” ...