People v. Wesley
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Mahoney, J.
These appeals present the issue, one of first impression in the appellate courts of this State, of whether and under what circumstances the results of forensic DNA testing using the RFLP technique,1 colloquially referred to as DNA fingerprinting, is admissible in a criminal trial. The underlying facts are easily stated. On September 15, 1987, 79-year-old Helen Kendrick was found dead in her Madison Avenue apartment in the City of Albany. An autopsy revealed that she had been sexually assaulted and sodomized; the cause of death was attributed to manual…
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- People v. CastroNew York Supreme Court · 1989
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- United States v. PorterDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1992
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