Legal Opinion
State v. Carmona
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided March 17, 2016No. S-1-SC-35851; Docket 33,378PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HANISEE, Judge.
{1} The State appeals the district court’s order suppressing its expert’s opinion that Defendant’s DNA was contained in samples taken from an alleged victim by a now-deceased Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE). We affirm.
BACKGROUND
{2} In 2003, nine-year-old P.W. told her mother that Defendant (whom P.W.’s mother had invited to stay overnight at her house as a guest) entered P.W.’s bedroom at night and licked her vagina and anus. P.W.’s mother called the police, who took P.W. and her mother to St. Joseph’s Hospital (now known as the Women’s hospital) to be examined.…
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3Cited by3 opinions
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