Phillips v. State

This appeal requires us to determine whether a deoxyribonucleic acid (“DNA”) analysis conducted in accordance with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (“FBI”) Quality Assurance Standards (“QAS”) qualifies for automatic admissibility under § 10-915 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article (“CJP”) of the Maryland Code, Petitioner Richmond Phillips argues that the DNA evidence is not admissible because the analysis was not performed in accordance with standards established by one of the two entities named in CJP § 10-915 (“DNA Admissibility Statute”), and because the methods of analysis…