Holmes v. State

Thompson, Justice.

Defendant Recardo Holmes was convicted of malice murder and rape in connection with the death of 62-year-old Laverne Jackson.1 He appeals, asserting, inter alia, that a DNA sample was collected from him under false pretenses and that, therefore, evidence pertaining to the sample should have been suppressed. Finding no error, we affirm.

The victim was found lying face down and naked on her living room floor. She had seminal fluid on her leg and buttocks, and in her vagina, a massive wound in the back of the head caused by at least five individual blows that had driven pieces…