Legal Opinion

Keen v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Virginia

Decided June 3, 1997No. 0226963PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MOON, Chief Judge.

David Alan Keen appeals his convictions of rape, sodomy, and statutory burglary. Keen asserts that the trial court erred in: (1) denying his motion for production of proficiency test data and results from the Virginia DNA laboratory (“state laboratory”); (2) allowing the Commonwealth’s DNA expert to consider the results of DQ-alpha DNA analysis of the rapist’s sperm in calculating the frequency with which a person of the rapist’s genetic profile would be found in the Caucasian population (“random-match” calculation); and (3) denying his request that cautionary DNA…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Spencer v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1990
  2. LeVasseur v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1983
  3. Cooper v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1986
  4. Shurbaji v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1994

3Cited by17 opinions

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  2. Commonwealth v. Vao SokMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
  3. Morgan v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 2007
  4. Patrick Franklin Graves, Jr. v. Commonwealth of VirginiaCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 2016
  5. Deante Lamar Payne v. Commonwealth of VirginiaCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 2015

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