PRESS RELEASE
BALTIMORE — In 2018, an 83-year-old woman was raped and murdered in her Baltimore apartment. The city’s crime laboratory used their TrueAllele technology to connect condoms from the scene to Tyrone Harvin, who was 14 years old when the crime occurred. After withstanding a 2021 Daubert defense challenge, the lab was able to testify about their reliable TrueAllele results. The jury convicted Harvin. He was sentenced to life in prison for rape and murder.
In 2024, the Maryland Appellate Court affirmed TrueAllele’s admissibility. Harvin appealed. On January 29, 2025, the Maryland Supreme Court denied Harvin’s petition for writ of certiorari. TrueAllele legal precedent is established throughout Maryland.
Cybergenetics invites anyone in Maryland who needs more information from DNA evidence to send their case for free TrueAllele screening. Prosecutors, defenders, crime labs, police and innocence groups are all welcome to find truth in their complex DNA evidence. When your DNA report comes back “inconclusive”, contact Cybergenetics.
To date, TrueAllele has assisted nearly 750 governmental, nonprofit, and private organizations. These include police departments, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and innocence groups. From these forensic DNA interpretation efforts, Cybergenetics has supplied TrueAllele match results in over 1,300 cases reports across 48 U.S. states. Almost 200 state, local, federal, foreign, and private DNA laboratories have sent their electronic DNA data to Cybergenetics for TrueAllele analysis. This broad usage underscores the technology’s ability to develop useful information from DNA data that other mixture methods find “uninterpretable”.
TrueAllele is a fully automated probabilistic genotyping system that routinely solves complex or “inconclusive” DNA mixtures—turning what was once considered uninterpretable evidence into reliable identification results. Since TrueAllele’s introduction in 2001, government crime labs have used it to solve tens of thousands of criminal cases. The computer’s answers help both prosecution and defense.
Commitment to Transparency
Subject to access policies, Cybergenetics provides legal teams with executable TrueAllele software for independent case data analysis. For scientific transparency, we provide confidential access to computer source code.
TrueAllele makes the impossible routine — unlocking the power of DNA evidence when justice needs it most.
Contact Cybergenetics today to bring the power of American-made forensic technology to your agency.