Clinton Hughes

Clint is the Senior Forensic DNA Attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS). He has spent the last 26 years as a public defender. For the past 11 years, Clint has served as a Forensic DNA legal specialist, advising attorneys and their clients in thousands of cases involving DNA evidence. He has also been a pro bono advisor for attorneys in state and federal courts in California, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Wisconsin on cases involving complex DNA mixture evidence and probabilistic genotyping. He has presented to judges, forensic scientists and criminal defense attorneys on legal issues related to forensic DNA analysis.

Clint was the lead attorney of the pro bono DNA litigation team that successfully precluded the application of the DNA mixture software STRmix and the modified random match probability to DNA samples in the upstate New York murder case People v. Hillary, in 2016. Clint was also a member of the legal team that successfully precluded use of the Forensic Statistical Tool (FST) software and low copy number (LCN) DNA testing in People v. Collins, in Brooklyn, New York in 2014.