27 proceeding appearances across 2 trials • First appearance: June 22, 1995
💬 From the record:
Dr. Bruce Weir was a prosecution witness and population geneticist who presented frequency calculations for mixed blood stains, including calculations involving the Bronco. Over three days in June 1995, defense attorney Peter Neufeld extensively cross-examined him about his mixture methodology, its relationship to National Research Council guidance, and omitted genotype pairs in the Bronco calculations; Weir later acknowledged errors and presented corrected calculations whose effects varied. In August 1995, defense expert Dr. Terence Speed disputed a prosecutor's assertion that Weir's population-frequency estimate was the only statistical information before the jury.
Bruce Spencer Weir is a New Zealand biostatistician and statistical geneticist. He is Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. He was previously the William Neal Reynolds Professor of statistics and genetics and director of the Bioinformatics Research Center at North Carolina State University. He is known within academia for his research in statistical and forensic genetics, and outside academia for testifying in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1995.