Commonwealth v. Belani

OPINION BY

SHOGAN, J.:

Appellant, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, appeals from the orders entered on March 1, 2013, precluding the admission of DNA evidence at the trials of Appellees, Jack Belani and Wenjue Liu. 1 We are constrained to reverse.

The Commonwealth assails the trial court’s orders excluding DNA evidence that would tie Appellees to a robbery during which Appellee Liu shot the victim in the leg. The trial court summarized the facts as follows:

[O]n July 24, 2008, [Appellees], along with another co-conspirator, went to the complainant’s apartment to commit an armed robbery. The…