California Court of Appeal

Conviction reversed based on the inadmissibility of DNA evidence, on numerous grounds, including: 1) irrelevance of an ethnic database absent a showing that the perpetrator was within that ethnicity; and, 2) insufficient foundational proof of the perpetrator's genotype.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2002
• Published 08/07/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Lynne S. Coffin, State Public Defender, Jeffrey J. Gale and Valerie Hriciga, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Jo Graves, Assistant Attorneys General, Stephen G. Herndon, Paul E. O'Connor and Enid Camps, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.