The People v. Donna Jordan

State of New York OPINION Court of Appeals This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the New York Reports. No. 75 The People &c., Respondent, v. Donna Jordan, Appellant. Sarah B. Cohen, for appellant William H. Branigan, for respondent. The Legal Aid Society, amicus curiae. GARCIA, J.: Courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court (see Williams v Illinois,

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[2012]), have struggled to identify the point at which forensic DNA science and the rights provided by the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause intersect—that is, when the mechanical processing of data…