Hart v. Commonwealth

Lucy Davis is the DNA section supervisor at the Kentucky State Police Forensic Laboratory in Frankfort. She testified at Appellant’s trial by closed circuit television from her Frankfort office. As is the norm with DNA evidence, Davis’s testimony was highly technical almost to the point of being incomprehensible to a layperson. One suspects that the only thing the jurors really understood from her testimony was that there was only one chance in 125,000,-000 that any other African-American male except Appellant could have committed this crime. After twice viewing the videotape of Davis’s…