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The prosecutor's fallacy occurs when the prosecutor elicits testimony that confuses source probability with random match probability. Put another way, a prosecutor errs when he 'presents statistical evidence to suggest that the [DNA] evidence indicates the likelihood of the defendant's guilt rather than the odds of the evidence having been found in a randomly selected sample.' United States v. Shonubi, 895 F. Supp. 460, 516 (E.D.N.Y. 1995) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted), vacated on other grounds, 103 F.3d 1085 (2d Cir. 1997); see also United States v. Chischilly, 30 F.3d 1144, 1157 (9th Cir. 1994) ('To illustrate, suppose the . ...