Legal Opinion
Wenzel v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided September 30, 1991No. CR 91-76PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.
The appellant, Joseph
Harold Wenzel, was charged with breaking into two homes and raping the occupants. He was tried by a jury, convicted of two counts of burglary and two counts of rape, and sentenced to a total of sixty years imprisonment.
On appeal, Wenzel claims the trial court erred in allowing the admission of FBI DNA profile test results because 1) the DNA laboratory proficiency test results were not timely disclosed, and 2) the DNA profile test results were obtained from vaginal swab samples which were depleted during testing. There is no merit to either of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
- Bowen v. City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Arizona v. YoungbloodSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Prince v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1991
- Hughes v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1978
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3Cited by12 opinions
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