California Court of Appeal

PEOPLE v. REEVES, A078462

The California Department of Justice's formula used to calculate the statistical significance of DNA matches is generally accepted in the scientific community for evidentiary admissibility purposes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/30/2001
• Published 07/30/2001

Judges

• PARRILLI, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  William M. Robinson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Francisco, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General;  Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General;  Stan M. Helfman, Supervising Deputy Attorney General;  Enid A. Camps and Sharon G. Birenba, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.