Edwin Borchard’s Innocence Project

The Innocence Project at Twenty: An Interview with Barry Scheck

The late 1980s witnessed the debut of DNA on the stages of the world’s judiciaries. In the United Kingdom, DNA ‘‘minisatellites’’ (discovered by Sir Alec Jeffreys and chronicled previously in this series of PLOS Genetics interviews) made their breathtaking appearance in two compelling stories: an immigration case and a double rape-murder case in which a village’s entire male population offered ...

Alj Edwin Milgrom

binding site of the AFP gene promoter in one (2 ). AFP is a widely used tumor marker. Although HPAFP is a rare disorder, it needs to be considered and differentiated from tumors to avoid inappropriate explorations and treatment decisions. We present a simple test based on restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis for screening of HPAFP mutations. This test can be used in patients...

Edwin Powell Hubble

The Anatomy of Innocence

We reveal a symmetric structure in the ho/n games model of innocent strategies, introducing rigid strategies, a concept dual to bracketed strategies. We prove a direct definability theorem of general innocent strategies with respect to a simply typed language of extended Böhm trees, which gives an operational meaning to rigidity in call-byname. A corresponding factorization of innocent strategi...

Probable Innocence Revisited

In this paper we propose a formalization of probable innocence, a notion of probabilistic anonymity that is associated to “realistic” protocols such as Crowds. We analyze critically two different definitions of probable innocence from the literature. The first one, corresponding to the property that Reiter and Rubin have proved for Crowds, aims at limiting the probability of detection. The seco...