Legal Opinion
State v. Scott
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 11, 2000No. M1997-00088-SC-R11-CDPublishedCited by 229 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · BarkerBarker, J.
in which ANDERSON, C.J., and DROWOTA, BIRCH, and HOLDER, JJ., joined.
The appellant in this case was arrested and charged with the rape and aggravated sexual battery of a nine-year-old child in Davidson County. Prior to trial, the State conducted various types of DNA analysis on several pieces of evidence, and the appellant, who is indigent, requested state-funded expert assistance in the field of DNA analysis to prepare his defense. The trial court denied the appellant’s motion for expert assistance and declined to hold a hearing to establish the reliability of mitochondrial DNA…
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