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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public Defender Donald Ellertson strenuously objected on grounds that the mathematics of probability were irrelevant, and that Sinetar's probability factors were inadmissible as assumptions rather than facts. Sinetar, however, merely estimated the factors before inviting the jurors to substitute their own. And the public defender will not appeal because he found no trial errors strong enough to outweigh the strong circumstantial evidence. Convicted by math, Malcolm Collins received a sentence of one year to life. Janet Collins got "not less than one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: The Laws of Probability | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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