Legal Opinion
People v. Hill
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 16, 2001No. B143524PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
YEGAN, J.
Ten years ago in People v. Axell (1991) 235 Cal.App.3d 836 [1 Cal.Rptr.2d 411], in an opinion authored by Presiding Justice Stone, we were the first California appellate court to approve the use of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) typing evidence to prove identity in a criminal case. Since then, the scientific methodology, while fundamentally the same, has become more refined and sophisticated. As of 1999, the “state of the art” was the Profiler Plus DNA test kit which here was used to prove identity. As we shall explain, this specific test kit does not embrace any new scientific…
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