Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lanigan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 18, 1994PublishedCited by 275 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
In Commonwealth v. Lanigan, 413 Mass. 154 (1992) (Lanigan I), this court upheld a pretrial ruling that had excluded the admission of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test results that showed a match between the defendant’s DNA and DNA found on the clothes of one of the victims. We did so because it did not appear that the process that the Commonwealth used for estimating the frequency with which the defendant’s DNA profile would occur in the population had been generally accepted in the field of population genetics. On remand, the Commonwealth immediately advanced a new and different process for…
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