S37 E5: Unscrambling Eggs | The Expert Witness
6/8/202634 min
Prosecutors privately begin questioning Adam Mosher’s false peer review claims, while defense attorney Don Malarcik uncovers evidence that Cybercheck reports were manually edited—contradicting claims that the system was fully automated. As the critical Daubert hearing approaches, prosecutors abruptly withdraw Cybercheck as evidence rather than defend it in court, effectively ending its use in Summit County without admitting wrongdoing. National reporting and expert analysis further undermine the technology’s credibility, comparing it to unsupported pseudoscience. But despite Cybercheck being abandoned locally and Mosher facing investigation, Don realizes the tool has silently continued to spread across the country and raises troubling questions about how easily unproven technology can influence the justice system.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 1· Soundbite0:01
If you sold somebody a loaded gun who you knew was in a vulnerable state and they shot themselves, I think it is murder. Just because you're using the internet doesn't mean you get away with murder.
Damon Fairless0:12
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Sam Mullins· Host0:37
We reached out to the Summit County Prosecutor's Office to get their perspective on the whole Don Malarcik versus CyberCheck story. We also reached out to the Akron Police. Neither wanted to participate in this series, which is fair enough. The Summit County Prosecutor's Office declined to be interviewed, but they sent us a statement giving their side of some of the story. And legally, under a Freedom of Information request, they were also required to share with us some of their emails referencing CyberCheck. Shout out to Redacted from the comms department at Summit County Prosecutor's Office. From the selection of emails that we were shown, it's clear that by 2024, the unflappable poker face that the prosecutors were presenting to defense attorneys in Akron, it