Anderson v. State

BERGER, J.:

I. INTRODUCTION

Over the past 15 years, scientific evidence from deoxyribonucleic acid (“DNA”) testing has become an increasingly important feature of many criminal cases. First found admissible in Delaware in State v. Pennell, 1 DNA testing may be dispositive in determining whether or not a particular individual was the source of a particular sample of biological material. 2 But some criminal defendants were tried and convicted before DNA testing was available, or before DNA testing techniques were sufficiently advanced to allow analysis of a small or somewhat degraded biological…