A notice flagging up concerns raised in Bermuda about DNA expert Candy Zuleger and her company, Trinity DNA Solutions, has been issued by an official to lawyers in Florida.

Letters were sent in October by Chief Assistant State Attorney Bridgette Myers Jensen to defence lawyers involved in cases in which Ms Zuleger was a witness, including a homicide case dating back to 1998.

The development was reported by the Pensacola News Journal on Monday, with the media outlet noting: “A series of revelations emanating from the British territory of Bermuda regarding ‘bad science’ attributed to a woman who runs a DNA evidence consultation company with ties to Pensacola and Santa Rosa County has caught the attention of local authorities.”

Forensic scientist Ms Zuleger worked on about 450 cases for the Bermuda Police Service between 2006 and 2016, appearing repeatedly as a prosecution witness before the Supreme Court in criminal cases, and getting paid almost $3 million.

Problems with her techniques for analysing DNA evidence from crime scenes came to light last year after a man jailed for life for murder and attempted murder, Julian Washington, had his convictions quashed by the Privy Council in London because of inaccurate evidence she gave at his trial.

Two more potential “miscarriages of justice” were identified by prosecutors after a review of all the cases in which she was involved.

Ms Jensen, at the Office of the State Attorney, First Judicial Circuit, Florida, was quoted as telling the News Journal that, after learning what happened in Bermuda, she began notifying local attorneys and agencies about Ms Zuleger and Trinity DNA Solutions.

In a letter dated October 30, 2025, she wrote to a Pensacola lawyer involved in a 1998 homicide case: “Candy Zuleger and/or Trinity DNA Solutions was listed as a witness in your case.

“The Office of the State Attorney recently discovered Ms Zuleger’s DNA analysis and testimony has been called into question by the Government of Bermuda.

“Documents are available upon request and will be provided via e-mail.”

Her letter said the information was being provided in accordance with the Brady/Giglio protocols.

The News Journal reported that this referred to a list which must be held by State Attorney offices across Florida “of, primarily, law enforcement officers who have proven dishonest and/or untrustworthy”.

Ms Jensen told The Royal Gazette in an e-mail that she was “not aware of any appeals in Florida that have been filed as a result” of her letter.

Trinity DNA Solutions voluntarily withdrew its accreditation in the United States as a forensic analysis laboratory in 2018 and the firm was dissolved in September 2022.

Ms Zuleger set up a new limited liability corporation in Florida, Trinity DNA, in February 2023 and her LinkedIn profile says she provides “consulting services to law enforcement and attorneys on previously worked forensic DNA cases”.

Ms Jensen said: “I have no idea if Ms Zuleger and/or Trinity are still giving expert evidence in criminal cases in Florida.”

She said the last case she was aware of was the triple murder trial of Donald Hartung in 2015, when Ms Zuleger appeared for the defence.

There have been calls for a commission of inquiry in Bermuda into all the cases resulting in convictions that Ms Zuleger worked on, but Andrew Murdoch, the Governor, has rejected them.

It wasn’t possible to reach Ms Zuleger.

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• UPDATE: this article has been updated with comments from Ms Jensen