Crime |
On May 14, 2012, 24 year old Dederick Droze was shot
and killed while sitting in a parked
car. Another man in the car was also shot. |
Evidence |
DNA evidence was collected from the car. |
DNA |
The Louisiana State Police crime laboratory developed DNA mixture data from the evidence. |
Match |
Due to the limited nature of the mixture data, the crime lab was unable to draw conclusions from the evidence. |
TrueAllele |
On the same data, the computer connected the car door handle to Roman Trosclair with a match statistic of 29.7 million. |
Cybergenetics |
On August 31, 2017, DNA analyst Jennifer Hornyak
testified about the computer’s results before an
East Baton Rouge jury. |