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    • Post-PCAST Court Decisions Assessing the Admissibility of Forensic Science Evidence

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    This database gathers federal and state court decisions issued after the release of a 2016 report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology titled Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (the “PCAST Report”). The database seeks to compile decisions addressing the PCAST Report in a manner that is easy for courts, attorneys, forensic scientists, and others to review. It is both sortable by column and searchable. Columns are described below, and the terms used in each column are explained. The database includes cases that have been published in recognized court reporters, cases that have been published by Lexis Nexis, unpublished cases, and oral decisions.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher Office of Justice Programs
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2024-10-03T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2024-10-10T00:00:00
    Rights public
    Public Access Level public
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    Homepage URL https://nij.ojp.gov/program/national-center-forensics/post-pcast-court-decisions-assessing-admissibility-forensic-science-evidence
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:000
    Publisher Hierarchy Department of Justice > Office of Justice Programs
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