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· 1/14/2016

Hebbard v. United Health Services Hospitals, Inc.

Citations

  • 135 A.D.3d 1150
  • 23 N.Y.S.3d 465

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that \[c]linical errors [committed during DNA profiling] are far more likely to cause an inconclusive or no match result than a false positive.\
  • concluding that third prong in Castro should go to weight of evidence, not its admissibility
  • finding FBI's method for conducting RFLP analysis and declaring match generally accepted, but population frequency estimate admissible only if most conservative method used
  • there is a “sharp disagreement within the scientific community on the manner in which probability estimates are derived”
  • there is a \sharp disagreement within the scientific community on the manner in which probability estimates are derived\
  • rather than 1 in 67,000,000 as claimed by the People

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Judges: Lahtinen

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