State v. Kim

OPINION

HUSPENI, Judge.

The State appeals the trial court’s eviden-tiary ruling in a prosecution for third and fourth degree criminal sexual conduct. The trial court ruled that testimony about the population frequency of certain genetic markers that were identified through electrophoresis testing of dried semen stains was not admissible. Respondent Joon Kyu Kim seeks review of an evidentiary ruling that electrophoresis met the Frye' 1 standard for scientific acceptance and that the results of such tests are admissible.

Kim argues that the State failed to establish that the suppression ruling…