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Second NRC Report (1996) on Forensic DNA Statistics

The National Research Council's second report on forensic DNA evidence (1996), which abandoned the ceiling principle recommended in the 1992 report and endorsed the product rule for calculating DNA profile frequencies. Referenced in civil trial testimony by Gary Sims.

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