{"id":1419,"date":"2006-04-05T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T20:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.171.213.235\/forensic-dna-testing\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:50:45","slug":"defense-expert-murder-case-dna-not-so-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/defense-expert-murder-case-dna-not-so-rare\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Daily Star: Brian Wraxall disagrees with other expert witnesses about DNA statistics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brian Wraxall, executive director of the Serological Research Institute, was called to the stand Tuesday afternoon to testify on behalf of murder suspect Dr. Bradley Schwartz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wraxall told jurors that while he doesn&#8217;t quibble with the results DNA expert Curtis Reinbold came up with, he does have a problem with the way those results were interpreted. Reinbold, an Arizona Department of Public Safety criminalist, made assumptions that he shouldn&#8217;t have, Wraxall said.<\/p>\n<p>Wraxall said he interpreted the data two ways. In the first, he came up with the one in every 1,363 white people figure. In the second, he concluded one in every 190 people has that same partial profile.<\/p>\n<p>The defense witness also said he has a problem with the way a second DPS expert performed another type of DNA test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1420\" src=\"http:\/\/68.171.213.235\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-1024x469.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-200x92.png 200w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-400x183.png 400w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-500x229.png 500w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-600x275.png 600w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-700x321.png 700w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-768x352.png 768w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-800x367.png 800w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-1024x469.png 1024w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-1200x550.png 1200w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14-1536x704.png 1536w, https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006.04.05-Arizona-Daily-Star-page-14.png 3426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brian Wraxall, executive director of the Serological Research Institute, was called to the stand Tuesday afternoon to testify on behalf of murder suspect Dr. Bradley  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,67],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forensic-court-cases","category-forensic-dna-analysis","tag-brian-wraxall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serological.com\/forensic-dna-testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}