State v. Hummert

OPINION

TOCI, Judge.

After a jury trial, Steven Henry Hummert (“defendant”) appeals from his convictions and sentences for two counts of sexual assault and other related offenses. The primary issue defendant raises on appeal is whether the trial court erred in admitting expert testimony that a declared “match” of DNA samples uniquely identified him as the assailant. We conclude that in the absence of generally accepted population frequency statistics for calculating the probability of a random match of DNA samples, the trial court erred in admitting such testimony. Because we do not find the…