Supreme Court of California

With regards to DNA evidence used to prove identity in criminal prosecutions, there is no cogent reason to preclude testimony of a range of ethnic or racial genetic profile frequencies when the race of the perpetrator is unknown, so long as the data is not presented in a manner that assumes that the race of the perpetrator is the same as the race of the defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/06/2006
• Published 07/06/2006

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Victor J. Morse, San Francisco, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Stan M. Helfman, Enid A. Camps and Sharon G. Birenbaum, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.