State v. Reginald Roach (068874)

Defendant, Reginald Roach, was convicted by a jury of aggravated sexual assault, burglary, and other offenses related to the home invasion and rape of a sixty-four-year-old woman. The issue on appeal to this Court is whether defendant’s confrontation rights were violated because the DNA analyst who testified at trial, and who matched the DNA profile developed from defendant’s buccal swab to DNA evidence left by the perpetrator at the scene of the offense, did not perform the testing procedures that provided the basis for the DNA profile developed from the perpetrator’s evidence.

At trial, the…