State v. Johnson

OPINION

ESPINOSA, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Robert Wayne Johnson was convicted by a jury of one count of sexual assault, a class two felony, for which the trial court imposed an aggravated term of fourteen years’ imprisonment. Johnson raises a number of issues on appeal, the most significant being whether the trial court erred in admitting expert testimony about the probability of a random match between Johnson’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and DNA extracted from semen stains on the victim’s clothing following the assault. Johnson also challenges the peremptory strike of a juror, the admission…