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Why GitHub Refuses to Provide Key Evidence to a Death Row Inmate


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For at least the second time in recent memory, a person’s life potentially hinges on critical information that is being withheld by a social platform. Joseph Colone, a man accused of murder and sentenced to death in Texas in 2017, is seeking code stored on GitHub, which could show that key evidence in his case was flawed. The company has declined to share it. After years of winding through the courts, Colone’s last hope rests on the U.S. Supreme Court, if it decides to hear his case.
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Colone, who was indicted in 2010, hopes to investigate a program used to analyze DNA presented as evidence of guilt. In 2017, an expert witness for the prosecution testified that a victim’s blood was found in Colone’s car, as well as a mixture of Colone’s and the victim’s DNA on a glove near the crime scene. As Colone’s Supreme Court petition notes, the prosecution depended on a probabilistic genotyping program, STRmix, because examiners were ....

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