Ex Parte Taylor

The defendant Robert A. Taylor, Jr., was convicted of capital murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction in an unpublished memorandum,Taylor v. State (No. CR-98-1641, December 30, 1999) 796 So.2d 452 (Ala.Crim.App. 1999) (table); and Taylor petitioned us for certiorari review, which we granted to determine whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA matching over the defendant's objection that the State had failed to prove the scientific reliability of the method or technique used by the DNA analyst to…