Young v. United States

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

After a jury trial, appellant Robert Young was convicted of kidnapping and rape based on an FBI examiner’s testimony that his DNA profile matched the DNA profile of the rapist. On appeal, Young argues that the trial court committed reversible error under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment when it allowed the government to present this testimony without calling as witnesses the laboratory scientists who derived and identified the two DNA profiles and performed the calculations on which the testifying examiner based her conclusions. In addition, Young…