State v. Kromah

OPINION

BLATZ, Chief Justice.

The state appeals a pretrial district court decision suppressing DNA evidence in eight separately charged cases involving different defendants and offenses. 1 For ease of reference, these eight defendants will be referred to as the “Kromah, et al., defendants.” The court concluded that the DNA testing methodology, known as PCR-STR, and the kits that utilized the PCR-STR methodology were “generally accepted in the scientific community and that the BCA [Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] lab’s matches have foundational reliability” as required under the…