Commonwealth v. Bly

The defendant, Jeffrey Bly, was convicted of deliberately premeditated murder. On appeal, Bly asserts that (1) the trial judge wrongly admitted certain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test result evidence; (2) DNA evidence collected from a water bottle and cigarette butts used by Bly should have been suppressed; (3) Ely’s statement to the police, obtained without Miranda warnings, should have been suppressed; (4) identification testimony by one of the Commonwealth’s witnesses should have been suppressed; (5) Ely’s expert on identification should have been permitted to testify before the jury; (6)…